Who commissioned Donatello to create the bronze statue David for the court of the Palazzo Medici ?
The bronze statues of David by Donatello and Verrocchio had both represented the hero standing victorious over the head of Goliath , the painter Andrea del Castagno had shown the boy in mid-swing , even as Goliath 's head rested between his feet , but no earlier Florentine artist had omitted the giant altogether .