Principal forced to resign over Michelangelo’s David visits sculpture. “I’m so fascinated by the David, from Italy I received a lot of support, thank you” she said.
Principal forced to resign over Michelangelo’s David visits sculpture. “I’m so fascinated by the David, from Italy I received a lot of support, thank you” she said.
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US principal forced to resign after parents complained about an art lesson showing one of the world’s most famous sculptures has visited the masterpiece.
Hope Carrasquilla and her family went to see Michelangelo’s David on Friday at Florence’s Accademia Galleria.
They came at the invitation of museum director Cecilie Hollberg, who said that she was grateful for the visit.
Ms Carrasquilla said she was impressed by the gallery, saying: “I think it’s beautiful. It looks like a church.”
“The thing that impresses me the most is that this whole gallery was built for him,” she said in a statement provided to BBC News on Friday.
“There is nothing wrong with the human body in and of itself,” she continued.
“Michelangelo would have done him wrong to sculpt him in any other way. I think it’s wonderful.”
The educator was asked to resign from the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida last month after less than a year in the job.
Local media reported that Ms Carrasquilla did not know the reason she was asked to leave, but believed it was related to the complaints over the lesson.
The 5.17m (17ft) statue depicts an entirely naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.
The art lesson, given to 11 and 12-year-old students, included an image of David and referenced Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” painting and Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” – both of which also contain nudity.
One parent complained the Renaissance era material was pornographic and others said they wanted to know about the lesson before it was taught.
The incident caused an international outcry and confusion in the classical art community.
Florida’s Department of Education was moved to issue a statement, declaring that the David statue has “artistic and historical value”.
Ms Hollberg, the museum director, said that she was “delighted to personally introduce” the educator to the sculpture.
“It is a masterpiece representing a religious symbol of purity and innocence, the triumph of good over evil.”
She added that more than half of the museum’s visitors come from the US.
The David was completed by Michelangelo between 1501 and 1504. It was instantly hailed as a masterpiece, with Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari saying the David “surpassed” any statue that had ever existed before.
People that see pornography in Art, are idiots of the n-th grade. I bet that in the next decade or more we will see even more of these idiots come up with reasons or complaints that are just out of this world.
I honestly do not see good defense from these types of individuals or groups, as there are more and more of them.
Americans lol
There’s stupid, there’s ignorant and then there’s “christian” conservative. A completely different level.
A dysfunctional relationship with sex and human sexuality is indicated when nudity and pornography are equated. It is not acceptable to impose that psychosis on new generations of American adults just because it was bestowed upon earlier generations.
Republicans are strangely obsessed with penises, even though I’m not one to pass judgment.
Americans always set a whole new level of stupidity every time they can.
These parents therefore dislike this statue and want it to be removed.
The Renaissance is not liked by the parents.
It hurts my head how stupid it is that these parents want to return to the Middle Ages.
What an insane story. These parents who think that an over 500 year old sculpture and icon of the arts is porn because it depicts a human body in classical style are trash. They are doing their children a huge disservice.
Why are people so afraid of the human body?
Sounds like that one early Simpsons episode. I think it even has an outcry about nude David in it. Those guys became their own satire.
the people who had her fired must live such small lives
This is some Gilead tier shit
American puritanism strikes again
Size envy. They’re extremely jealous and don’t want others to know that it’s possible to have such an extremely large and girthy… *hand.*
Some people are way dumber and bigoted today than those literally living half a millennium ago! I’m sure they would have praised her if the lesson was about some semiautomatic rifle with target practice included. But the statue of a naked character from the Bible… horror! 😱
America entertaining us with their stupidity