2023-04-30 17:58:56
“Art is civilization and whoever teaches it deserves respect,” the mayor of Florence solemnly defended, Dario Nardella. Said and done, the Italian city has received with honors this weekend Hope Carrasquilla, the teacher at a Florida school who was fired a month ago for showing a photograph of Michelangelo’s David in class and upsetting a couple of parents who saw traces of pornography in the Renaissance masterpiece.
«A few weeks ago she was attacked for showing her students Michelangelo’s ‘David’. Today she receives a recognition in the name of art and culture from the City Hall of Florence, “added Nardella, who received Carrasquilla at the City Hall of the city and gave her a diploma that recognizes her educational work.
«For his commitment to the education of the young generations in beauty and harmony through Art, for recognizing the importance of transmitting that same harmony to the social harmony of a community, for his determination to defend learning and, in doing so , in defending the same values of open-mindedness, understanding and dialogue that embody the very spirit of Humanism and the Renaissance, without fear of change”, can be read in the document.
Hours before waving from the balcony of Palazzo Vecchio, the American professor visited the Accademia Gallery and, accompanied by its director, Cecilie Hollberg, stood before the object of controversy: the imposing ‘David’ by Michelangelo. “There is nothing wrong with the human body itself,” Carrasquilla said, according to a museum statement.
A few weeks ago she was attacked for showing her students Michelangelo’s David. She today she receives from @comunefi a recognition in the name of art and culture. Art is civilization and whoever teaches it deserves respect. Welcome Professor Hope Carrasquilla! pic.twitter.com/ncKYYBptoe
— Dario Nardella (@DarioNardella) April 29, 2023
Hollberg, in fact, was delighted to present “David”, a representation of good triumphing over evil. The director of the Academy was already “astonished” when Carrasquilla was fired last March. «’David’ is the symbol of the Renaissance that puts man in the center of attention in the perfection of him as he was created by God. He is a religious figure, he is the expression of our European culture, the Renaissance has absolutely nothing pornographic,” Hollberg told local media. Linking the sculpture’s nudity to pornography is nothing more than a ‘distorted view’,” she said then.
At that time, the mayor of Florence had already announced his intention to invite the teacher to visit the city to honor her. “Art is civilization and whoever teaches it deserves respect,” she said then.
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