Size Duel deck / Buildings, bridges and dams
Michelangelo’s David
Height: the marble statue with its carved base
5.17 m (17 ft)
The original marble figure in Florence, not the copies.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“5.17 meters”Visit Tuscany / Tuscany official tourism website: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“con la base scolpita, è alta 517 centimetri”RAI News: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“H: 517 cm”Yale University Press, A&AePortal: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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