Santa Croce and Bargello Museum Guided Tour
Santa Croce Square and Bargello Museum
Join our Santa Croce Square and Bargello Museum guided tour in English with a professional guide. All our tours are led by
officially authorized, highly qualified and experienced guides.
The itinerary starts from S.Croce square, the largest Franciscan church in Florence.constructed against Dominic church of S. Maria Novella. Through old narrows medieval roads you’ll find the Bargello museum with the most important collection of Renaissance Tuscan sculpture in the world, with fundamental works by Donatello, Della Robbia, Verrocchio and Michelangelo, along with a significant group of medieval French ivories, Italian majolicas and arms.
Tours will last one hour and 30 min. and give you an high quality, entertaining introduction to the masterpieces and their hidden meaning!
Tour details:
- Meeting: 15 minutes before the starting time meet the guide in front of "entrance". The guide will give you entrance tickets!
- Duration: h 1,30
- Language: English
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Inclusions:
- Local guide officially authorized
- Whisper System (included for groups over 10 persons)
Exclusions:
- Entrance fee for Bargello Museum
- Exhibition fee
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Reduced and free tickets
May purchase Reduced/Half Ticket *:
- European Community citizens between 18 and 25 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
- Italian school teachers
May purchase Free Ticket **:
- Non European Community citizens under 6 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
- European Community citizens under 18 and over 65 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
Service fees and eventual temporary exhibition fees are always due
Bargello Museum
Museum:
The Museum displays the most important collection of Renaissance Tuscan sculpture in the world, with fundamental works by Donatello, Della Robbia, Verrocchio and Michelangelo, along with a significant group of medieval French ivories, Italian majolicas and arms.
History:
The museum is housed in the medieval Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo (or Bargello Palace), built from 1255 and enlarged in the 14th C., residence of the Captain of the People, of the Podestà and lastly of the Captain of Justice (called Bargello), that is the chief of the police (16th C.), when the palace was transformed into a prison. The building was completely restored in order to house the Bargello National Museum, opened in 1865.
Collections:
The earlier museum was dedicated to medieval applied arts: bronzes, majolicas, statues, coins, seals and medals. Donatello’s anniversary (1887-88) was the occasion to open the Hall of Renaissance Sculpture (today called “of Donatello”) and between the late 19th C. and the early 20th C. the collection was further enlarged thanks to private donations and legacies (Carrand, Ressmann, Franchetti), with new ivories, enamels, arms and armours.
Today, on the ground floor of the museum, the Hall of the 16th C. Sculpture displays important works by Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, Jacopo Sansovino and Giambologna. On the first floor, a balcony (“Verone”), adorned with bronze animals by Giambologna, leads to the vast Audience Hall (or “of Donatello”), which houses many masterpieces by Donatello, his assistants and Luca Della Robbia, along with the famous bronze reliefs cast by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi in competition for the second doors of the Florentine Baptistery. On the same floor are the Islamic Room, the Carrand Room, the Chapel of Mary Magdalene, the Room of Ivories, the Medieval Room and the Majolicas Room. On the second floor are the rooms dedicated to
Giovanni and Andrea della Robbia, displaying the well-known glazed terracotta works, the Room of the Arms, the Room of Small Bronzes, the Verrocchio Room (sculptures by Andrea del Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Antonio Rossellino, Benedetto da Maiano) and the Room of Medals.
Masterpieces:
Michelangelo, Bacchus (1496-7)
Michelangelo, Pitti Tondo (1496-7)
Michelangelo, Brutus (1496-7)
Benvenuto Cellini, Mercurio, Danae with the child Perseus, Zeus, Athena (1545-53)
Benvenuto Cellini, Bust of Cosimo I (1545-47)
Giambologna, Flying Mercury (1580)
Giambologna, bronze animals (1567)
Donatello, David (1430-50)
Donatello, St. George (1417)
Donatello, Bust of Niccolò da Uzzano (1425-30)
Donatello, Atys-Amor
Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac (1401)
Andrea del Verrocchio , David (1470 c.)
Andrea del Verrocchio, Lady with posy (1575-80)
