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The pose of Michelangelo's David is unlike that of previously Renaissance depictions of David. The bronze statues by Donatello and Verrocchio represented the hero standing victorious over the head of Goliath,[sixty nine] as well as the painter Andrea del Castagno had proven the boy in mid-swing, whilst Goliath's head rested among his legs,[70] but