The entry on the David needs some minor editing as follows: 
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 Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499. The republic was changing after the fall of anti-Renaissance Priest and leader of Florence, Girolamo Savonarola, (executed in 1498) and the rise of the gonfaloniere Piero Soderini. He was commissioned by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue of Carrara marble portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed on a tribune spur of Florence Cathedral.[28] Michelangelo responded by completing his most famous work, the Statue of David, in 1504.[place new source here] The masterwork definitively established his prominence as a sculptor of extraordinary technical skill and strength of symbolic imagination. A team of consultants, including Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, was called together to decide upon its placement, but reached no definitive recommendation.  It was ultimately placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. It now stands in the Academia Gallery while a replica occupies its former place in the square.[29] 

 New source: A. Victor Coonin, From Marble to Flesh: The Biography of Michelangelo’s David 
 Florence, The Florentine Press, 2014. 

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