Who commissioned Donatello to create the bronze statue David for the court of the Palazzo Medici ?
Most scholars assume the statue was commissioned by Cosimo de ' Medici , but the date of its creation is unknown and widely disputed ; suggested dates vary from the 1420s to the 1460s ( Donatello died in 1466 ) , with the majority opinion recently falling in the 1440s , when the new Medici Palace designed by Michelozzo was under construction .