Hope Carrasquilla, the US principal who was forced to quit her job when parents complained about their children seeing Michelangelo’s David in an art lesson, arrived in Florence to see the Reinassance artist’s masterpiece.
On Friday, Ms Carrasquilla and her family visited Florence’s Accademia Galleria to view the iconic work of art, following an inviatation by museum director Cecilie Hollberg.
“I think it’s beautiful. It looks like a church”, the former principal remarked. “The thing that impresses me the most is that this whole gallery was built for him,” she said in a statement provided to several media outlets. “There is nothing wrong with the human body in and of itself,” she added. “Michelangelo would have done him wrong to sculpt him in any other way. I think it’s wonderful.”
After less than a year on the job, Ms. Carrasquilla was asked to leave the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida last month as her art lesson, which was taught to 11 and 12-year-old kids, featured a drawing of David and made references to the nudist-themed works “Birth of Venus” by Botticelli and Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam”.
One parent claimed the Renaissance-era materials were obscene, while other parents indicated they want advance notice of the lesson’s content.
