It is easy to forget that rather than classical white marble, the true taste of early 16th-century Florence was what we now often consider kitsch โ brightly painted maiolica and glazed terracotta, even if of the quality of the Robbias. Even David originally had some gilding, but being nude that was limited to a garland on his head, the sling, and the trunk supporting his right leg.
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