David with the Head of Goliath is a painting on a parade shield of leather and wood by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Castagno, created around 1450–1457.

It is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.[3] The painting decorates an ornamental parade shield, curved at the edges, and not designed for actual fighting.

These were often painted, but very rarely with a single figure, especially a Biblical one (David slaying Goliath) rather than a coat of arms, or a more ornamental design.

David, as the heroic shepherd boy who killed the huge Goliath, was already a patriotic symbol for the Republic of Florence, which saw itself as threatened by much larger neighbouring powers.

In the following decade Antonio del Pollaiolo made a shield with a plaster figure of Milo of Croton, painted in gold, now in the Louvre.