Florence

Marble.

Embossed copper.

Gilded bronze, height cm 54. The only sculpture attributed with certainty to Brunelleschi is this panel of 1401.

Gilded bronze, height cm 54. Slab with which the artist won the competition for the Baptistery door in 1401.

Gilded bronze (height cm 54), detail of the panel from the north door of the Baptistery, executed between 1403 and 1415 and installed in 1424.

Marble, height cm 100. Panel belonging to the first tier of decoration, executed by Andrea to a design by Giotto. The panels of the tiers above the first date from after the 15th century; this one dates from 1337.

Gilded bronze (height cm 27), detail of the panel from the north door of the Baptistery, commissioned from him after he won the competition of 1401 held by the Arte di Calimala, executed between 1403 and 1415 and installed in 1424.

Marble, detail of the Porta della Mandorla of Santa Maria del Fiore, on which Nanni worked around 1408.

Marble, height cm 136, about 1321.

Marble, detail, about 1321.

Gilded bronze, height cm 55. Detail of one of the panels depicting the Virtues, from the south door of the Baptistery, executed between 1330 and 1336.

Marble, height cm 100. Panel from the first tier of reliefs decorating the bell tower of Florence Cathedral, on which Andrea worked together with Giotto.

Marble, height cm 60. Detail of a panel representing the 'Human Activities', made by Andrea for the decoration of the Cathedral bell tower, of whose works he became master builder in 1340.

Gilded bronze, height cm 50. Detail of one of the panels depicting the Virtues, from the south door of the Baptistery, executed between 1330 and 1336.

Marble, height cm 16, detail of the Tabernacle of the Madonna in the Loggia of Orsanmichele, built between 1355 and 1359.

Marble, detail height cm 110. Placed over the tomb of Fra' Cavalcanti in the church of Santa Maria Novella in the last century.

Marble, detail. Work by Arnoldi, who around 1361 was working as master builder at Florence Cathedral on the decoration of the second tier of reliefs.

Marble, height cm 78. This Madonna belongs to the sculptor's maturity (about 1320) and is almost certainly to be identified with the one that crowned the monument of Bishop Orso, a signed work, today partially reassembled.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height cm 220. The work was carved between 1408 and 1413 for Florence Cathedral.

Gilded bronze, height cm 130, panels of the south door of the Florence Baptistery, made between 1330 and 1336.

Gilded bronze, height cm 79. Panel from the east door, known as the “Gates of Paradise”.

Gilded bronze, height cm 60. Eastern door slab.

Marble with glass inlays.

Marble, height cm 132, after 1320. Detail of funeral monument which Tino created in the Florentine Cathedral after 1320.

Gilded bronze, height cm 27, detail of one of the panels of the south door. The waxes were cast by Venetian craftsmen in the years after 1330.

Description: Marble, detail.

Description: Marble, height cm 188. Executed in 1421. Group carved for the Campanile of the Duomo in collaboration with Nanni di Bartolo, known as il Rosso.

Description: Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, about 1515, detail.

Description: Bronze, detail of the second pulpit, height cm 65. Datable to 1461.

Description: Marble, detail of the little Faun eating grapes.

Description: Marble, height cm 195, this work was carved in Rome, in 1496, for the collector Jacopo Galli.

Marble, detail. Carved between 1511 and 1512 for Giovanni Bartolini.

Description: Bronze, detail, height cm 110. Commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1545-1548.

Description: Terracotta, height cm 50. Datable shortly after 1470.

Description: Marble relief, cm 84,5 x 90,5. Executed in 1491-1492. It represents a battle of centaurs: a classical theme revisited by Michelangelo with violent expressive force.

Description: Painted wood, height cm 160. This work, of about 1415, concludes the sculptural career of the artist, who then devoted himself to architecture.

Polychrome wood, height cm 135, datable to 1494. Made for the church of Santo Spirito.

Description: Marble, height cm 191. Commissioned from the artist by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in 1408. It was then moved to Palazzo Vecchio in 1416 and partially reworked.

Description: Bronze, height cm 158, about 1440 for Cosimo de' Medici.

Description: Bronze, height cm 126, created between 1472 and 1475 for the De' Medici.

Description: Marble, detail of the head of Goliath.

Description: Bronze, detail of the head of Goliath.

Description: Bronze, detail of the head.

Description: Marble, height cm 420. The work, executed in 1501-1504, the young Michelangelo's first civic commission, was intended to stand in front of the Palazzo della Signoria and become the symbol of the Florentine Republic.

Description: Marble, detail.

Description: Silver, height cm 29, detail of the relief on the right side of the St. John altar, executed between 1477 and 1490.

Description: Bronze, detail of the first pulpit, height about cm 75. The two pulpits were commissioned by Cosimo the Elder around 1461 and made with the help of several assistants, including Bertoldo and Bartolomeo Bellano.

Description: Bronze, height cm 45. Commissioned by the Medici from the artist, who also treated the mythological theme of the Labours of Hercules in painting.

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Description: Clay, height cm 41.

Description: Bronze, height cm 90. This work was executed for Isabella d'Este, who came to Mantua from Ferrara in 1490 to marry Francesco Gonzaga.

Description: Bronze, height cm 104.

Marble, detail of the pulpit, height cm 70. Executed between 1475 and 1480.

Description: Detail of the prophet's head.

Description: Marble, height cm 191. One of the Prophets executed between 1423 and 1425 for Giotto's Campanile, commissioned by the Arte della Lana.

Description: Marble, detail, height about cm 30.

Description: Bronze, height cm 180. Executed between 1445 and 1460. The work was commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici to celebrate Medici power and later became a civic emblem, the symbol of the Republic overthrowing tyrants.

Description: Bronze, detail of the head of Holofernes. Executed between 1455 and 1460.

Marble, detail.

Marble, detail, length cm 185.

Description: Marble, height cm 277. Allegorical figure executed about 1530-1536, intended for the tomb of Julius II.

Description: Marble, height cm 267. Allegorical figure designed for the Tomb of Julius II and executed between 1530 and 1563.

Description: Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, about 1515, detail.

Marble, detail.

Description: Glazed terracotta, height cm 80.

Marble, detail.

Description: Marble group, height cm 261, intended for the Tomb of Julius II, executed about 1532-1534.

Description: Marble, height cm 60. Executed about 1478, a Medici commission.

Description: Marble, detail, height cm 78.

Description: Polychrome terracotta, height cm 86.

Description: Polychrome stucco and papier-mâché, height cm 60. Probably executed in Venice, where the artist moved after the Sack of Rome in 1527.

Description: Marble, height cm 83.

Description: Marble bas-relief, height cm 55,5. The work belongs to the last decade of the 15th century, when the young Michelangelo was serving his apprenticeship at the Medici Academy, practising the study of anatomy and of ancient statuary.

Description: Marble, height about cm 650. Carlo Marsuppini was chancellor of the florentine Republic between 1455 and 1458.

Marble, height cm 50, detail. The two putti holding the coat of arms, which echo the Hellenistic character of Donatello's small bronzes, are placed at the base of the sarcophagus.

Description: Marble, detail of the head of the deceased. Executed in 1450. Leonardo Bruni had been chancellor of the Florentine Republic and author of the “Historie Fiorentine”. The recumbent deceased holds in his hands a copy of the book he wrote.

Marble, height about cm 610. Executed in 1450. The monument is rich in classical elements, both as a whole, framed by an arch supported by pilasters, and in its details: the slab on which the deceased lies is supported by eagles, the cartouche by two winged Victories.

Marble, detail.

Description: Silver, detail of the relief on the left side of the St. John altar, executed between 1477 and 1480. Pollaiolo had begun as a goldsmith and often returned to this activity during his life.

Description: Bronze, height cm 320. Executed in 1545-1554.

Description: Marble, detail, executed in 1460. This is the first portrait bust of the Renaissance. These mortuary portraits were taken from casts made of the faces of the dead in order to perpetuate their features.

Description: Marble, detail, 1474.

Description: Marble group, height cm 226, executed in 1550-1556 with several interruptions; it was intended for the altar of the sculptor's funerary chapel.

Description: Marble group, detail of the head of Christ and Madonna.

Marble, detail of the Tabernacle of the Sacrament, height cm 70. Executed about 1461.

Description: Marble, detail.

Description: Marble, detail of the cantoria originally placed in the Duomo, dismantled in 1668 and reassembled in the museum after 1883.

Description: Marble, detail of the Cantoria. The artist executed the Cantoria for the Duomo in 1432-1435, in competition with Donatello's.

Description: Bronze, detail from the relief on the Second Pulpit, height about cm 60 about 1461.

Description: Polychrome terracotta, height cm 133, from Villa Medicea in Careggi.

Marble, height cm 110, 1547.

Description: Marble, detail.

Description: Painted wood, detail.

Description: Marble. Detail of the head.

Description: Marble, height cm 209. Executed about 1417, commissioned by the Arte dei Corazzai for an outer niche of Orsanmichele.

Pietra serena, detail of the bas-relief. Executed about 1435.

Description: Bronze. Panel of the Door for the Old Sacristy, h. cm 53.

Description: Marble, height cm 271. It is the only one executed of the twelve Apostles planned for Florence Cathedral, made between 1504 and 1506.

Marble, bronze and stone, height cm 540. The monument, dated 1470-1472, consists of a sarcophagus with bevelled corners embellished with reliefs, framed by an arch with plant and heraldic motifs.

Description: Marble, height about cm 400. Executed in 1461-1466. The tomb was built for the remains of Jacopo di Lusitania, nephew of King Alfonso VI. The chapel was built by Manetti, one of Brunelleschi's spiritual heirs.

Description: Marble, detail height about cm 25.

Description: Marble, height about cm 600. Executed between 1526 and 1534. In the niche is the statue of Giuliano, Duke of Nemours, who died in 1516; on the sarcophagus are the allegorical figures of Day and Night.

Description: Marble, height about cm 250, detail of the statue of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, who died in 1519, and of the allegorical figures of Dusk and Dawn. Executed about 1525.

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Bronze, detail, height cm 62.

Marble, detail, 1635.

Bronze, detail from Fountain of Neptune, 1560-1575.

Marble, height cm 116.

Marble and stone.

Commissioned around 1575 by the Medici for the Boboli Gardens. The fountain is also called the “Venus of the Grotticella”.

Bronze, height cm 95.

Marble, height cm 116.

Marble, detail. Executed in 1583.

Marble, height cm 410, 1583.

Bronze bas-relief at the base of the marble group. Executed in 1583.

Marble, detail.

Marble, height about cm 230. Active in Florence and Pisa, Caccini owes his fame to the allegories on the bridge over the Arno.

Description: Marble, detail. The work was commissioned in 1565 by Francesco I De' Medici for Palazzo Vecchio.

Description: Marble. Commissioned in 1565 by Francesco I de' Medici for Palazzo Vecchio.

Bronze, height cm 95. Executed between 1572 and 1575.

Bronze relief height cm 95, after 1603.

Bronze, height cm 180. Three different versions: the first go back to 1550, this copy displays the artists maturity.

Marble, detail.

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Description: Marble, detail from the "Beheading of John The Baptist".

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Marble, height cm 287.

Marble, height cm 80, 1868.

Description: Polychrome bronze, height cm 48, 1949.

Bronze, 1868.

Description: Plaster, height cm 216, 1866.

Marble, detail, total length cm 185.

Bronze, cm 132x50x50, 1877.

Marble, detail, 1812.

Marble, height cm 178, 1812.