ROME (AP) — A former Florida faculty primary who used to be compelled to surrender after scholars have been proven a picture of Michelangelo’s iconic statue of a nude David seen the masterpiece in particular person on Friday in Florence.
Cecilie Hollberg, who directs the Accademia Gallery in Florence, the place the David is the big name enchantment, mentioned that Hope Carrasquilla, her husband and two youngsters, got here directly to the museum proper once they arrived within the town.
Carrasquilla stepped down as primary of Tallahassee Classical faculty within the Florida town remaining month after one guardian claimed the towering sculpture used to be pornographic. Different oldsters complained they weren’t notified prematurely that their youngsters could be proven the nude determine all the way through a lesson that includes the Renaissance.
Internet hosting Carrasquilla used to be an “immense excitement,” the gallery director mentioned.
“I’m satisfied as a way to welcome her and introduce her to the beauties of our museum, but even so appearing her the David, a sculpture that, I repeat as I’ve mentioned, has not anything to do with pornography,″ Hollberg mentioned in a written observation. “It’s a masterpiece, it represents a non secular image of purity and innocence, the victory of fine over evil.”
Hollberg added that the paintings’s nudity “is a transparent expression of the Renaissance, which places guy on the focus.”
Michelangelo’s marble sculpture depicts the Biblical David, bare, with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, in a position for struggle with Goliath.
A decision to Carrasquilla’s mobile phone went unanswered.
Hollberg famous that these days greater than 50% of the gallery guests come from the US.
“I’m positive that Mrs. Carrasquilla will to find right here, in Florence, the welcome and the unity that she merits,″ the director added.
The Florida faculty is attended by means of some 400 scholars from kindergarten via twelfth grade.