Galleries and Museums
Cappella Brancacci
Piazza del Carmine. Tel. 055 2382195. Mon-Sat 10-17,
Sun. 13-17. Closed Tues. Masaccio's Life of St. Peter, Expulsion
from Paradise, Tribute
Money (1426-28); Masolino, Filippino Lippi.
€ 4
Cappelle Medicee
Basilica of San Lorenzo. daily 8.15-17.50.
Closed on the 2nd and 4th Sunday and 1st, 3rd and 5th Monday of each month. Scupture and architecture of Michelangelo: the Medici tombs. € 4
Casa Buonarroti
Via Ghibellina 70,
Tel. 055-241752.
9.30-14, during temporary exhibitions: 9.30-16.
Closed Tuesday. Michelangelo's
family home. Terracottas, drawings, wood and bronze sculpture, early work. € 6.50
Cenacolo
(The Last Supper) di Andrea del Sarto
via di San Salvi 16. Tel:
0552388603. Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15 – 13.50. Former convent with grandiose fresco
in the refectory of the Last
Supper by Andrea
del Sarto; also works by Pontormo, del
Sarto, Franciabigio.
Cenacolo
di
Ognissanti
Via Borgo Ognissanti 42. Tel: 0552388720. Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, 9-12. Last Supper fresco by Ghirlandaio.
Cenacolo
di Sant'Apollonia
Via XXVII Aprile 1. Daily:
8.15-13.50,
Closed on the 2nd and 4th Monday and 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of each month. Andrea
del Castagno frescoes of the Last
Supper, the Crucifixion,
Deposition and Resurrection.
Duomo (Cathedral of Santa Maria
del Fiore) -
Mon-Wed and Friday: 10-17, Thu: 10–15.30,
Sat: 10–16.45,
Sun. and holidays: 13.30-16.45,
1st Sat. of the month: 10-15.30.
Dome by Brunelleschi took 14 years to build, 1434. Stained glass windows from cartoons by Donatello, Uccello, Ghiberti. Uccello fresco Monument to Sir James Hawkwood. Bronze doors by Luca della Robbia, Tomba del Vescovo Orso by Tino di Camaino. Free admittance.
Baptistry - 12-19, Sun 8.30-14. Believed to have been a Roman temple of Mars (4-5C). Mosaics from cartoons by Coppo di Marcovaldo and his pupil Cimabue; Donatello Funeral Monument to John XXIII. € 3
Baptistry Doors - North and East by Ghiberti; South, Andrea Pisano.
Campanile by Giotto - Piazza Duomo. 8.30-19.30. 414 stairs, no lift € 6
Cupola - 8.30-19. Entry at the Porta della Mandorla of the Cathedral (north side). 463 stairs, no lift. € 6
Galleria dell'Accademia
Via Ricasoli 60. Tues-Sun 8.15-18.50. Michelangelo's Slaves and David; works by Carpaccio, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Perugino, Venus and Cupid by Pontormo. € 6.50
Galleria degli Uffizi
Piazzale degli Uffizi.
Tues-Sun 8.15-18.50. € 6.50.
First floor, Drawing and Prints Gallery: Mon, Wed, Fri: 9-13.30, Tues, Thurs: 9-17, closed in August. Tel. 055 2388671. Access is restricted to researchers with a presentation letter. For conservation reasons, works by Renaissance masters are only accessible for specialist purposes.
Top floor, First Gallery of Painting: Florentine and Tuscan painting from late 13-16C. Maestàs by Cimabue, Giotto and Duccio, Annunciation by Simone Martini, Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, Coronation of the Virgin by Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca's Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Pollaiolo Hercules and Antaeus.
Botticelli Room: Birth of Venus, La Primavera; Portinari Altarpiece, Hugo Van der Goes; Entombment, Rogier Van der Weyden; Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci.
Tribune Room: the Medici Venus (Greek, 3C BC) portraits of the Medici by Pontormo, Bronzino, Vasari, Rosso Fiorentino's Musician Angel.
Italian and Foreign Schools of the 15-16C: Signorelli, Perugino, Adam and Eve by Cranach, Durer, Bellini, Giorgione, Correggio, Holbein, Memling.
Second Gallery of Painting: Michelangelo's Doni tondo; Raphael's Leo X, Giulio II and Madonna with Goldfinch; del Sarto, Pontormo, Parmigianino, Veronese, Tintoretto, Titian and Caravaggio.
Italian and foreign painting of 17-18C: Rubens, Van Dyck, Guardi, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Chardin, Ruysdale, Claude Lorraine, self-portraits by Rembrandt.
Museo dell'Angelico (Museo
di San Marco)
Piazza San Marco. Mon-Fri: 8.15-13.50,
Sat-Sun: 8.15-19;
Closed on 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday and 2nd and 4th Monday. Frescoes by Fra Angelico in
the original monk's cells. €
4
Museo Archeologico
Via della Colonna 38. Mon 14-19; Tues, Thurs 8.30-19; Wed, Fri-Sun 8.30-14.
Greek, Egyptian and Etruscan sculpture, Chimera from Arezzo, vases, sarcophagi, bronzes. € 4
Museo del Bargello (Museo Nazionale)
Via del Proconsolo 4. Mon-Sun: 8.15-14. Tel. 055 294883.
14C palace. Ground floor: sculpture by Michelangelo, Cellini. 1st floor: Donatello (St. John the Baptist, bronze David, St. George, polychromed portrait
bust of Niccolo da Uzzano). 2nd floor: terracottas, Verocchio, Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Anteus, della Robbia. € 4
Museo dell' Opera del Duomo (Opera
di S. Maria del Fiore)
Piazza del Duomo 9. 9-19.30. Tel. 055 2302885. Mezzanine: Pieta by Michelangelo. 1st floor: Magdalen in
wood, Jeremiah and Habakkuk by Donatello; Cantorie by Donatello and della Robbia; Andrea Pisano; Verrocchio. € 6
Museo
dell'Opera
di S. Croce
Piazza
S. Croce, 16. Tel. 055 244619. weekedays 9.30-17.30, Sun. and holidays 13-17.30. Damaged Cimabue Crucifix,
Donatello bronze St. Louis, Domenico Veneziano. €
5
Museo Marino Marini
(Ex-Chiesa San Pancrazio) - Piazza S. Pancrazio. Tel. 055 219432. 10-17
Mon, Wed-Fri. Closed Aug. 7-26. Museum
of the 20C sculptor Marino Marini. € 4
Museo del'Novecento (Raccolta "A.
della Ragione")
1 Via di San Leonardo (Forte Belvedere). Tel. 055 2340849, 055 2001486From Morandi to Guttuso. Small but splendid collection of 20C Italian art
and never crowded: Campigli, Carrà, De Chirico, Guttuso, Mafai, Morandi, Rosai, Sironi, Arturo
Martini, Marino Marini and Giacomo
Manzù.
Orsanmichele
Via dei Calzaiuoli. 10-17, closed Mon. In niches outside of the building (1337)
are copies of sculptures by Ghiberti ( St. John the Baptist), Verrocchio (St.
Thomas) on Via Calzaiuoli; Donatello (St.
George), Nanni di Banco (4 Saints) on Via Orsanmichele; Ghiberti (Saints Stephen, Matthew) on Via dei Lamberti.
Palazzo Pitti - main residence of the Medici from 1550. Tel. 055 287096.
Boboli Gardens - Main gate at left of Pitti Palace. 8.15-19.30, June-Aug. 16C garden, antique and renaissance sculpture, grottoes, fountains. Quicktime tour. € 6
Galleria d'Arte Moderna - 8.15-18.50 . Some of the Macchiaioli (Italian impressionists), but otherwise nothing special. € 8.50.
Galleria Palatina - Tues-Sun 8.15-18.50. Tel. 055 2388611. Many Titians: The Concert, La Bella, Pietro Aretino; Rubens' Le Conseguenze della Guerra, Raphael, Tintoretto, Poussin. € 8.50
Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della Signoria) - 9-19, Thurs and holidays 9-14. Tel. 055 2768224. 1st floor, Salone dei Cinquecento: Cellini, Gianbologna, Michelangelo's Victory, Bronzino; Sala dei Gigli and outside, Donatello's Judith and Holofernes. Fantastic decorative wall paintings by Vasari and his crew. € 6
- Bookstore:
- Libreria della Spada - Via delle Belle Donne and Via della Spada. Art books, discounts; south of Santa Maria Novella.
- BM Libreria Book Shop - Via Borgognissanti, 4/R. Tel. 055 294575
- Libreria Internazionale Seeber - Via Tornabuoni, 68. Tel. 055 215697
- Melbookstore - via de' Cerretani, 16r near the Duomo. Tel. 055287339
- Gelato:
- Vivoli - Via della Stinche, 7. Near Santa Croce.
- Perche' no! - Via Tavolini, 19r. Near Orsanmichele.