Employing many different techniques throughout his career, michelangelo produced a great variety of art works, including paintings, for example, in The Sistine Chapel-The scheme consists of nine panels illustrating episodes from the Book of Genesis, set in an architectural frame. Michelangelo replaced the proposed Apostles on the pendentives with Prophets and Sibyls heralding the arrival of the Messiah.
The statue of David was commissioned as part of a series of prophet statues to be placed along the roofline of Florence Cathedral's east end, but it was instead placed in a public square outside the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence's seat of civic government.
