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November 28, 2016
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Galleria dell’Accademia – Part 4 – Other Works
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This final post from the Accademia Galleria will show other works not yet covered. The first was an unexpected find, another of Michelangelo’s Pietas. Apparently he sculpted several of these with the most famous housed in St. Peter’s basilica in…
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November 27, 2016
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Galleria dell’Accademia – Part 3 – Plaster Casts and Florentine Gothic
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Plaster Casts Just around the corner from David is a gallery of plaster casts called Gipsoteca Bartolini (Hall of Models by Bartolini) . The artworks exhibited here were first exhibited in Lorenzo Bartolini’s studio in Borgo San Frediano (across the…
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November 25, 2016
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Florence – Galleria dell’Accademia – Part 1
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The Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze (Gallery of the Academy of Florence) is an art museum in Florence, Italy, and the home of Michelangelo’s sculpture David and many other wonderful pieces. When we walked into the first gallery, the first thing…
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