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No, it was the Medici family. They wanted it in front of their palace. Today there is a copy in that very spot and the real one is in a museum.

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What artist did the city of Florence commission to create a freestanding statue of the Biblical hero David using a huge cracked block of marble that all other sculptors had abandone?

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