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Galleria dell’Accademia

Florence, Italy

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Galleria dell’Accademia walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Image in the demo: Saint Matthew, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1503–1506. Jörg Bittner Unna, Source credit: Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source photograph, cropped and resized under CC BY-SA 3.0. Other collection rows are illustrative examples.

What the Galleria dell’Accademia collection covers

The Galleria dell’Accademia brings Michelangelo's sculpture together with Florentine painting, plaster casts and historic musical instruments. David is one part of a collection that reaches from painted panels to sculptors' models. Collections

Founded in 1784 in association with Florence's art academy, the museum occupies a gallery complex on Via Ricasoli. Its holdings include Tuscan painting from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries and works by Michelangelo and Giambologna.

Its collection strengths include Michelangelo sculpture, Tuscan painting from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, plaster casts, and historic musical instruments.

  • David

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Date
    1501–1504

    Michelangelo carved David from a marble block that earlier sculptors had already worked. Made from 1501 to 1504, it was moved to the Accademia in 1873 for conservation.

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  • Rape of the Sabine Women

    Giambologna

    Date
    About 1580

    The Accademia holds Giambologna's full-size preparatory model in clay and stucco, inventory Sculture 1071. It records the development of the marble group later placed in the Loggia dei Lanzi.

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  • Saint Matthew

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Date
    1503–1506

    This unfinished marble figure was the only apostle Michelangelo began from a commission for twelve statues in 1503. Its partly worked surface preserves traces of the sculptor's process.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Galleria dell’Accademia permits personal photography where allowed, without flash, tripods or professional equipment. Selfie sticks and drones are not admitted; follow any additional room, work or staff restrictions. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Galleria dell’Accademia photography policy

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