(Galleria dell'Accademia) houses Michelangelo's David, the consummate Renaissance statue of the buff, biblical shepherd boy ready to take on the giant.
This is the star attraction.
2. In 1501, Michelangelo, a 26-year-old Florentine, was commissioned to carve a large-scale work. His creation, a 17-foot-tall symbol of divine victory over evil represents a new century and a whole new Renaissance outlook.
3. I liked this room full of statuary.
4. Portrait of a Young Girl, 1820, is one of the lovely works there.
5. Michelangelo's other unfinished works
Are in the Accademia including Prisoners and St. Matthew.
6. There was so much to see in the Accademia.
7. At a small museum of precious stone inlay we saw beautiful works such as this tabletop.
8. The malachite mantel caught my attention!
9. The artisans performed the exceptionally skilled and delicate task of inlaying thin veneers of semi-precious stones especially selected for their colour, opacity, brilliance and grain to create elaborate decorative and pictorial effects.
10. We visited the Ospedale degli Innocenti , 'Hospital of the Innocents', where people anonymously could give their unwanted babies to a place where they would be cared for and educated.
11. Designed by Brunelleschi (of Duomo done fame) who received the commission in 141, it is regarded as a notable example of early Italian Renaissance architecture. It was built and managed by the Silk Guild of Florence, one of the wealthiest in the city and, like most guilds, took upon itself philanthropic duties.
12. A close up of the Giovanni della Robbia sculpture behind me.
13. The Bargello, also known as the Palace of the People is a former barracks and prison, now an art museum. It has the best collection of Florentine sculpture.
14. Donatello's very influential, beautiful David was the first male nude sculpted in a thousand years.
15. Donatello who embraced realism with his lifelike statues, set the personal and artistic style for many Renaissance artists to follow.
16. Views of the Arno River bicycling to the campground at the end of each day.
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