Who commissioned Donatello to create the bronze statue David for the court of the Palazzo Medici ?
Vasari described it as " certainly a miracle that of Michelangelo , to restore to life one who was dead , " and then listed all of the largest and most grand of the ancient statues that he had ever seen , concluding that Michelangelo 's work surpassed " all ancient and modern statues , whether Greek or Latin , that have ever existed . "