The David depicted by Michelangelo has Roman Italian features and is “uncircumcised”; David would have been as all Hebrew Israelite males were.(as a matter of fact one of David’s accusations against Goliath was “why do we let this uncircumcised man threaten us..”) The statue was commissioned by the Florentine City State as a symbol of independent defiance against Roman secular control.(not the Church, but the secular control). They saw themselves as a kind of “david” city state against a big “goliath” Rome...but by golly that they could defend itself capably against if needed!
From 1Samuel 17:26 Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this Uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
David at the time was not in his full maturity. I find it Ironic that Michelangelo depicts David as a 14 foot tall statue, higher than Goliath’s 9.9 feet!(yeah, yeah artistic license and all that...the Florentines had paid for an expensive piece of marble and they probably wanted as much as possible used up)
“David would have been”...circumcised. For clarification of that statement in the previous post.