Received in Florence former principal fired after showing Michelangelo's David

Hope Carrasquilla, the former teacher and principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical School who was fired for showing Michelangelo’s David during an art history lesson because it was considered pornographic by some parents, visited the Accademia Gallery in Florence yesterday morning, accompanied by her husband and two children, to view live the Renaissance icon that created so much scandal at her school. The teacher was personally invited through various phone conversations and email exchanges by Academy Gallery director Cecilie Hollberg.

“It is an immense pleasure to have Ms. Carrasquilla as our guest, at the Accademia Gallery in Florence,” said the director. “I am happy to be able to welcome her and to introduce her to the beauty of our museum, as well as to introduce her directly to the David, a sculpture that, I reiterate as already said, has nothing to do with pornography. It is a masterpiece, representing a religious symbol of purity and innocence, the victory of good over evil. Its nudity is a clear expression of Renaissance thinking, which puts man at the center of attention. From all over the world they come each year in procession to admire it, and a great many are Americans. In this period more than 50 percent of visitors come from the United States. I am sure that Mrs. Carrasquilla will find the welcome and solidarity she deserves here in Florence.”

“I’m really impressed by the David sculpture,” Hope Carrasquilla told Hot, “but the thing that strikes me the most, which I didn’t know, is that the whole Gallery was built for him. It’s beautiful because it feels like entering a church made to contain the purity of this figure whose humanity you also capture, which is the aspect I love most. I always told my kids ’look at how the skin was made.’ There is nothing wrong with the human body. Michelangelo didn’t do anything wrong, he couldn’t but sculpt it this way, it couldn’t be anything else but this way. It is wonderful and I am really happy to be here.”

This morning Hope Carrasquilla was also received by the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella at Palazzo Vecchio, during a meeting moderated by journalist Gerardo Greco held in the Sala degli Elementi, which was attended not only by the mayor, but also by Simonetta Brandolini D’Adda, president of Friends of Florence, which collaborated in organizing the initiative, and Cristina Acidini, president of the Academy of the Arts of Drawing.

At the end of the meeting, a scroll was presented to the former dean, signed by the mayor on behalf of the City of Florence, recognizing “the importance of transferring that same harmony into the social harmony of a community, for its determination to defend learning and, in so doing, to uphold those same values of openness, understanding and dialogue that embody the true spirit of Humanism and the Renaissance without fear of change.” A scroll "for her commitment to educating the younger generation in beauty and harmony through art."

Received in Florence former principal fired after showing Michelangelo's David

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