Florence - Galleria dell' Accademia
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Paintings
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| Annunciation panel, by Filippino Lippi. |
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| Cosimo Rosselli - St. Barbara between St. John the Baptist and Matthew Cosimo. |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio - Saint Stephen with Saints Jacopo and Pietro. |
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| Francesco Granacci - Assumption of the Virgin with Saints. |
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| On the right, a pieta by Angelo di Jacopo. Included are St. Francis and St. Michael the Archangel. |
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| Allegory
of the Immaculate Conception, by Giovannantonio di Francesco Sogliani
1492–1544. John the Baptist lies at the feet of the saints. |
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| Filippino Lippi, Deposition from the Cross c. 1506. |
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| Alessandro Allori, The Annunciation, 1603. |
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| Tree of the Cross - Panel, Pacino Di Bonaguida. |
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| Polyptych with the Crucifixion and Saints Nicholas, Bartholomew, Florentius, and Luke, by Pacino. |
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| Byzantine panels. |
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| Coronation of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi. |
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| Taddeo
Gaddi: Panels from the cabinets of the sacristy of Santa Croce.
At the top, the Ascension of Jesus, and the Annunciation. The
small panels depict scenes from the life of Christ. |
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| The
Galleria welcomes the visitor in the Hall of the Colossus, recently
restyled in December 2013. It hosts in the center the plaster
model for the stunning marble sculpture of Giambologna’s “Rape of the
Sabines” (from around 1580). Giambologna prepared the model to express
virtuosity, creating for the first time a tightly-knit group of three
figures carved just from one large block of marble which offers
multiple viewpoints to the observer. The original marble sculpture,
completed in 1582, can be now admired under the Loggia dei Lanzi in
Piazza della Signoria. |
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| Another view. |
Sculpture Gallery - Hall of the Prisoners
The Hall takes its name from the four large sculptures showing male nudes known as the Slaves or Prisoners or Captives.
They were begun by Michelangelo for a grandiose project for the tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere, but due to
lack of funding and the Pope's death. The “Prisoners” were to be an allegory of the Soul imprisoned in the Flesh,
slave to human weaknesses. After the artist’s death, four of the Prisoners were found in his studio.
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| Pieta by Michaelangelo. |
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David by Michaelangelo
The proportions of some details are atypical of Michelangelo’s work. The figure has an unusually large head and
imposing right hand.These enlargements may be due to the fact that the statue was originally intended to be placed on the
cathedral roof line, so important parts of the sculpture had to be necessarily accentuated in order to be visible from
below. Another interpretation about these larger details lead scholars to think that Michelangelo intentionally over-proportioned
the head to underline the concentration and the right hand to symbolize the pondered action.
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