Why wouldn’t Michaelangelo’s David exist? He’s not a god.
Why might he? You know scriptures and God’s standards as well as anyone! God also knows the heart of Michaelangelo and also the philosophies influencing the artists of his times. David is also depicted as a naked UNCIRCUMCISED male...even if God would have tolerated the nudity, David was Hebrew and would have been circumcised! The statue itself was intended to stand as a symbol of Florentine city state independence from the influences of Rome.
It’s all going to crumble...
My questions are rhetorical. I’m not advocating that a new art based antitemperance league be formed to go around smashing art. Yet I see a lot of articles about various Islamic groups smashing statues as being noxious (and they are) or I see articles like this one about dumb tourists being dumb. It is hard for me to get worked up about some venus getting smashed or a Hercules losing his stone crown...these were depictions of false Gods....it’s all going to crumble as God establishes his kingdom on Earth and Christ rules out of Jerusalem.
So a thought and heart experiment....think of the Risen Christ with nail prints in his extremities standing next to various famous works of sculpture or famous but rather lewd paintings. (things we consider “classic works” of art) Think of what the Bible says about each person’s works being tried by fire...
What would you do if Christ asks of you... “Do you really see me as countenancing this work of art...or this statue?” Again it is all rhetorical...and God works in all his children in different ways so for some the question may not yet be relevant to an individual believer at the same time as it would for another.
Think of what the Bible OT passages say of the far future when Christ rules on the Earth, of what life will be like, of what will be allowed, of the pure language all men will speak, of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord that will cover the Earth that will be evident to all(no more will one say to another “know the Lord”!). Then ask yourself again, why would God tolerate a nude oversized statue of an uncircumsized male with a then fashionable Roman style haircut and aquiline nose dressed only with the fig leaf name of David!