ANSA 11/06/2025

ANSA - Michelangelo explains sculpting David in virtual-reality app

Artist's voice illustrates film of emerging Florence masterpiece

The artificially recreated voice of Michelangelo explains how he sculpted David in a new virtual reality app on offer to tourists in Florence.
    "Michelangelo's David," a new virtual reality experience, was presented in Florence Wednesday by Slow Tour Tuscany and Way Experience and will be available to the public starting Thursday, November 6, in the VR space on Via degli Alfani.
    Using viewers and headphones, visitors will be able to hear Michelangelo's voice narrating the creation of the work in several languages ;;while, sequence after sequence, they see the statue taking shape from the block of marble.
    "Michelangelo's David" is the second part of the "Masters of the Renaissance" project, which already includes the one on Brunelleschi's Dome and plans for subsequent projects dedicated to the protagonists of the Italian Renaissance.
    The aim is to offer an innovative and engaging experience in the world of art and history, allowing visitors to fully immerse themselves in the rich artistic and cultural landscape of the Renaissance and rediscover the Florence of that era, with its atmosphere, colors, and historical figures.
    Every detail, the promoters explain, is carefully validated by a team of art historians, experts in immersive storytelling and digital-cult narration, curators, and selected scientific committees, to ensure an authentic, exciting, and scientifically rigorous experience.

 


   

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