Galleria dell'Accademia

Welcome to the Galler-eea del-Akka-demia, one of the most significant repositories of artistic genius in the Western world. As you stand here in the entrance area of this historic institution, you are treading upon ground that…

Entering the Hall of the Colossus, your attention is immediately arrested by the towering plaster model for Giambologna’s Abduction of the Sabine Women. This is not the final marble version—which you may have seen in the Loggia…

Tucked away down a quiet hallway is a space that many visitors unfortunately bypass in their haste to see the Dah-veed: the Museum of Musical Instruments. This collection, belonging to the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory, is a…

As you move back toward the main gallery, you enter the long hall leading to the Dah-veed, lined with four monumental, unfinished sculptures known as the Prisoners or Slaves. For the analytical mind, these works are perhaps even…

We now stand in the Tribune, a neoclassical rotunda designed by Emilio De Fabris specifically to house the most famous sculpture in history. Seventeen feet tall and carved from a single, slender block of marble, Michelangelo’s…

As you leave the brilliance of the Tribune, you enter a space that feels like a dramatic departure in time: the Gipsoteca Bartolini. This long hall is filled with hundreds of plaster casts, or 'gessi,' primarily by the sculptor…

Ascending to the upper floor—which many visitors miss—you will find a collection dedicated to thirteenth and fourteenth-century Florentine painting. This is where the story of the Renaissance truly begins. …

Our scholarly journey through the Galler-eea del-Akka-demia concludes back near the entrance, where the journey began. We have traversed centuries of human thought, from the symbolic 'Tree of Life' to the raw, visceral struggle…