On Wednesday of last week we went to the Bargello Museum for my Renaissance Art Class. The museum houses masterpieces by Michelangelo. Its collection includes Donatello's David and St. George Tabernacle, Vincenzo Gemito's Pescatore, Jacopo Sansovino's Bacco, Giambologna's L’Architettura and his Mercurio and many works from the Della Robbia family. Benvenuto Cellini is represented with his bronze bust of Cosimo I.
PESCATORE BY VINCENZO GEMITO The museum also has a fine collection of ceramics (maiolica), textile, tapestries, ivory, silver, armours and old coins.It also features the competing designs on Isaac's Sacrifice that were performed by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi to win the contest for the second set of doors of the Florentine Baptistry in 1401.
PIETA BY MICHELANGELO
(originally for his own tomb)
After lunch, we also visited the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, which is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral (Duomo) of Florence. The museum is located just east of the Duomo, near its apse. It opened in 1891, and now houses what has been called "one of the world's most important collections of sculpture."
THE PENITENT MAGDALENBY DONATELLO
MUSEO DEL'OPERAAmong the museum's holdings are Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors for the Florence Baptistery called the Gates of Paradise, the cantorias, or singing-galleries, designed for the cathedral by Luca della Robbia and Donatello, and The Deposition, a pietà intended by Michelangelo for his tomb.
PESCATORE BY VINCENZO GEMITO 
PIETA BY MICHELANGELO
After lunch, we also visited the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, which is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral (Duomo) of Florence. The museum is located just east of the Duomo, near its apse. It opened in 1891, and now houses what has been called "one of the world's most important collections of sculpture."
THE PENITENT MAGDALEN
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