Restaurateur who cleans the David: "I am intrigued to know what she would think of the tourists"

Florence (Italy), Sep 25 (EFE) - (Camera: Antonello Nusca) Every two months, the restorer Eleonora Pucci has "the privilege" of looking face to face and alone at Michelangelo's "David" to clean the dust on his hair and his stone skin: "I'm intrigued to know what tourists would think," the young historian confesses to EFE in a pause in her work.

SOUNDBITES OF THE RESTORER OF THE DAVID OF MICHELANGELO, ELEONORA PUCCI (IN ITALIAN).

Translation:

00:00: What intrigues me most would be to understand what he might think seeing all those people crowded in the museum and eager to have their picture taken with him, what opinion he would have of all of us.

00:21: Maintenance is done every two months and is important to avoid dust deposits and filaments that circulate in the air and are brought to the museum by thousands of tourists.

00:42: The most curious thing is these little spiders that are always found in the curls of David's hair where they create these webs between one shake and another.

00:56: It's a thrill every time. In fact, I always get asked how it was the first time and I say the first time was like the second, the third, and the fourth. It's always a great thrill but most of all a great honor to be able to work on any work of art in general, especially Michelangelo's David.

01:21: Our job is a great fortune because we are surrounded by works of art, we live in wonderful places and I think we have a very important task which is to preserve these works and to ensure that even those who come after us can continue to enjoy their beauty. Their history and their value.

01:44: I started in Florence, then I married all over Italy, in Bologna, Palermo, Padua, Pompeii and Modena.

01:55: I would have liked to go back to Florence because I am Florentine, I won the competition and I could choose a museum like the Galleria dell'Accademia. I was very lucky and I returned voluntarily to Florence to take care of this museum.