Description
The David-Apollo or Apollino is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, made in about 1530 and kept in the Bargello Museum in Florence.The name of the work is due to the fact that in some inventories, for example those of Vasari, this statue it is called David, while in others, like that of Cosimo I, Apollo. Perhaps Michelangelo could have started the project wanting to create a sculpture depicting David, but then in the course of work he could have changed his mind transforming it into an Apollo.The statue depicts a completely naked young man and is made particularly fascinating by the complex twist of the figure that like other sculptures by Michelangelo, this one is also unfinished because in the middle of the work, the sculptor had to return to Rome.
