And no, I did not buy a kitchen apron in Florence emblazoned with the full-length naked image of the Statue of David, but only because they didn’t have my size. Souvenirs appeal to the obsessive ...

In that way, she is a bit of a David herself against the Goliath of unfettered capitalism with its army of street vendors and souvenir shop operators hawking aprons of the statue's nude figure ...

But curators worry the marble statue’s religious and political significance is being diminished by the thousands of refrigerator magnets and other souvenirs focusing on David’s genitalia.