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In 1784, Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo decided that all schools of drawing in Florence were combined into one academy has a gallery of old paintings to allow students of the Academy of Fine Arts to enhance our knowledge. He was chosen the old building that once belonged to the hospital of St. Matthew, was eventually expanded to adjacent rooms. Today the Gallery is a museum of considerable importance, thanks to some pieces it houses.

This statue, which depicts the biblical character waiting to fight the giant Goliath, he represented the strength of the Florentine Republic during the centuries.

Right Hand of Michelangelo's David

right foot of Michelangelo's David

Other works by Michelangelo were transferred to the Gallery then: the St. Matthew and the Four Prisoners executed for the tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome, but which had been placed in the grotto of the Boboli Gardens at the end of 500.

was recently completed restoration on the upper floor of the Galleria dell'Accademia, which has been opened to the public a new room where the models are collected Plaster of Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, sculptors 800. Here you can admire the 300 busts of the upper middle class.

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Archaeological Museum in Florence

Canopus from Chiusi (first half of the sixth century BC.)

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Among the most important vessels known as François Vase, from name of the archaeologist who discovered it in 1844 in an Etruscan tomb at source Rotella, near Chiusi, a large black-figured krater signed by the potter and painter Ergotimos Kleitias, which contains an impressive array of stories from Greek mythology about six rows of figures , dated around 570 BC

Other notable works are the cups of the Little Masters (560-540 BC) designated as such by the ceramists of miniatures painted and signed by un'hydria red-figure painter Meidias (410-400 BC).

The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the Chimera of Arezzo, one of the most famous works of the Etruscan civilization (fourth century BC), a plastic bronze raffiguarente the mythical lion show but it could be wrongly restored by Benvenuto Cellini, who rebuilt the serpentine tail biting the head of a goat on its back, while both have had to look threatening to the observer. Was found in a field near Arezzo in 1553 and presented to Cosimo The Vasari. On the right front leg has an inscription