Everyday open from 8:15 AM to 6:30 PM. Closed on Monday. 12€.
One of the most famous museums in the word with more than a million visitors a year. It was founded in 1563 by Cosimo I dei Medici as an Accademy of Arts and in 1784 it became an Art Gallery thanks to Pietro Leopoldo Grand Duke of Tuscany. Here many art works were housed after the religious congregations suppression.
The original David by Michelangelo has been displayed here since 1873 and in 1909 his four Prisoners and other statues
In the first room we enter to admire Gianbologna’s monumental plaster, a sample for “The Rape of the Sabine Women”. Other works on display include a number of Florentine paintings dated 1400-1500 by Paolo Uccello, Sandro Botticelli, Perugino and Filippino Lippo.
Other artists contemporary to Michelangelo embracing important artistic movements such Mannerism with Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Granacci and counterreformation with Santi di Tito and Alessandro Allori. Moreover medieval artworks of Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Orcagna and gothic triptychs by Giovanni da Milano and Lorenzo Monaco.
Since 2001 the gallery has and important artistic heritage on the upper floor. The firty magical instruments of the conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” located nearby that was a private collection of Grandukes of Florence dated 16th and 17th century.
