Michelangelo's statue of David is considered an iconic piece of art and a near-perfect representation of the human form. Except, it turns out, for one important - and dangerous - body part.

The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo's statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson. The school's principal quit ...

The statue of St David weighs about five tonnes and stands ... "Then one night at my drawing board, a white dove landed on the window ledge. "It kept coming back and I though 'this is a visitation!' ...

It's a classical school, he said, so students see nude images in Renaissance art, including Michelangelo's 16th-century sculpture of David, every year. The problem this time was that the ...