FLORENCE ART TIPS: MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, ARCHITECTURE...
The essential art guide for Florence. We cover Florence Museums, Florence Galleries and Florence Architecture. Whether you are interested in Florence Sculptures, Classical Art or Modern Contemporary Art or you would like to visit the most note-worthy Florence squares and Florence churches...
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Florence Sculptures
Florence Museum Name: Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Type: sculpture and minor arts museum
Address: Via del Proconsolo, 4; 055-23885.
Note: this is one of the most important and rich sculpture museums: there are works of such artists as Verrocchio, Donatello Michelangelo and Cellini. The uniqueness of a sculpture is that, when the passion and effort and all feelings are transmitted to it, it becomes alive, and through time these pieces still speak of their creator and of their times.
Other Florence Museums
Florence Museum Name: La Specola
Type: art and wax modeling museum
Address: Via Romana, 17; just off Palazzo Pitti/Giardino di Boboli; 055-225190.
Note: the wax collection at this museum is unique in the quantity and beauty of its pieces; it was created in the XVIII century in order to teach anatomy without having to directly observe a cadaver.
Florence Museum Name: Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari (click here for their website)
Type: museum of photography and history of photography
Address: Piazza Santa Maria Novella
Note: we believe this is one of the most important photography museums in the world, where not only the most beautiful arts, history and culture photos are exposed, but it is also a reconstruction of the evolution of photography since the XIX century, with all the machines, publicity, paper documents, and other instruments correlated, which have been fundamental elements to make photography. To experience this museum is also to experience all the educational aspects of photography; the museum indeed also promotes cultural events.
Florence Museum Name: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type: glass and scientific instruments
Address: P.zza dei Giudici, 1; 055-2398876.
Note: the Institute hosts glass, scientific and mathematical instruments of Cosimo Il Vecchio, de' Medici and some astronomical instruments which belonged to Galileo Galilei.
Florence Museum Name: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Type: art history and architecture research institute
Address: Via G. Giusti, 44; 055-249111.
Note: one of the most ancient art research institutes in Italy. It is based on the principles of Humanism, and for centuries researchers from every part of the World have been studying in one of the largest libraries in Italy, composed of hundreds of thousands of volumes.
Florence Museum Name: Casa Buonarroti
Type: collection of Michelangelo's drawings and early works.
Address: Via Ghibellina, 70; 055-241752.
Florence Museum Name: Museo della Casa Fiorentina Antica di Palazzo Davanzati
Type: noble residence / everyday life museum
Address: Via Porta Rossa, 13; 055-2388610.
Note: this is one of the best examples of XIV century noble residence with everyday life elements such as furniture, tapestries, beautiful laces, the room's sober decorations and structure, the dining room with the small internal window from which the food was pulled up from the kitchen; the bedroom, the bed, the bathroom (a tiny space with a small 'wall container' where a movable container was put and covered; the content was then thrown on the street below), the women's shoes, very small, by the way, with wedge heels
Florence Museum Name: Museo della Fondazione Herbert Percy Horne
Type: museum of customs and habits
Address: Via de' Benci, 6; 055-244661.
Note:for XV and XVI century lovers of the every day life
Florence Museum Name: Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Type: pietre dure museum
Address: Via degli Alfani, 78; 055-265111.
Note: the pietre dure workshop was founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici in 1588. Today it is also a specialized restoration workshop.
Florence Museum Name: Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Type: shoes
Address: Palazzo Spini Ferroni, P.zza Santa Trinita, 5r; 055-3360456/5.
Note: a collection of thousands of Salvatore Ferragamo original, creative, colourful shoes, and sketches, books and magazines.
Florence Museum Name: Gipsoteca dell'Istituto Statale d'Arte
Type: plaster sculpture museum
Address: Piazzale di Porta Romana, 9; 055-244145.
Note: this is one of the most important plaster cast museum in Italy; it includes XIV to XX century sculptures, among which are Donatello and ancient Roman works.
Florence Museum Name: Fondazione della Seta Lisio
Type: precious hand woven textiles preservation, creation and studies
Address: Via B. Fortini, 143; 055-6801340.
Note: this Foundation dedicates to studying and promulgating the art of textiles and to preserving and creating new precious textiles, such as brocades and velvets, which are kept in perfect conditions from the Renaissance and Baroque times.
Florence Museum Name: Museo Storico della Scagliola
Type: scagliola pieces
Address: Viale Europa, 115; 055-686118.
Note: the museum contains works from the XVII to the XIX century.
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