Donatello’s David, Fresh From Its Laser Bath, Returns To Full Display

The 15th-century bronze statue, the most famous depiction of the biblical king after Michelangelo’s, is back on its perch at the Bargello Museum in Florence after an 18-month, €200,000 cleaning using lasers. (“We could only intervene now with the newest laser techniques; even the most delicate mechanical procedure would have hurt it.”)