{"id":958,"date":"2025-04-17T10:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agt.dotflorence.com\/tour\/the-accademia-gallery\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:43:27","slug":"the-accademia-gallery","status":"publish","type":"tour","link":"https:\/\/guidefirenzeagt.it\/en\/tour\/the-accademia-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accademia Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The visit to the <strong>Accademia Gallery<\/strong> will lead you to discover one of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance: <strong>Michelangelo Buonarroti<\/strong>, from his early period when he sculpted the famous <strong>David<\/strong>, to his more mature phase with the <strong>Prisoners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Gallery also houses a large c<strong>ollection of 14th-century panel paintings<\/strong> of religious subjects, extending up to the late 16th century.<\/p>\n\n<p>A significant part of the collection also helps us better understand the techniques used to create these colossal sculptures: this is the <strong>Gipsoteca<\/strong>, with its vast collection of plaster casts by Master <strong>Lorenzo Bartolini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>This complex also includes the <strong>Gallery dedicated to musical instruments<\/strong> that once belonged to the <strong>Medici <\/strong>and <strong>Lorraine <\/strong>families, later donated to the Accademia by the Cherubini <strong>Conservatory of Music<\/strong> in Florence. We will also admire a <strong>viola crafted by the famous Cremonese luthier Stradivari<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The existing building<\/strong> was modified and renovated specifically to house <strong>Michelangelo\u2019s giant David<\/strong>, which originally stood in <strong>Piazza della Signoria<\/strong>; it was later joined by the <strong>Prisoners <\/strong>from <strong>Boboli <\/strong>and the <strong>Saint Matthew<\/strong> from the Opera del Duomo.<\/p>\n\n<p>Upon entering, you are immediately immersed in the Florentine Renaissance atmosphere of the time. It almost feels as if you can see the <strong>young Michelangelo<\/strong> climbing the scaffolding to finish his gentle giant. <\/p>\n\n<p>The visit will begin in the <strong>Hall of the Colossus<\/strong>, where you can admire the <strong>preparatory plaster model of The Rape of the Sabines<\/strong> by <strong>Giambologna<\/strong>, surrounded by beautiful <strong>15th-century paintings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The tour continues through the <strong>Gallery of the Prisoners<\/strong>, culminating in the <strong>Tribune that houses Michelangelo&#8217;s David<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Continuing on, you will be able to admire the <strong>Gipsoteca <\/strong>and the <strong>rooms dedicated to panel paintings together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Gallery often also hosts <strong>interesting temporary exhibitions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Galleria dell\u2019Accademia houses, in addition to the famous David, as many as seven original works by Michelangelo Buonarroti.<br \/>\nAn AGT guide will bring the statues to life by telling you about the quintessentially Florentine Michelangelo and will also show you other parts of the museum, including the collection of 14th-century paintings, the Bartolini Plaster Cast Gallery, and the Musical Instruments Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":919,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tour-category":[18],"class_list":["post-958","tour","type-tour","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tour-category-florence-great-museums"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v25.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Accademia Gallery - AGT Associazione delle Guide Turistiche di Firenze<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guidefirenzeagt.it\/en\/tour\/the-accademia-gallery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Accademia Gallery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Galleria dell\u2019Accademia houses, in addition to the famous David, as many as seven original works by Michelangelo Buonarroti. 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