Episode 348 - Florence - The Accademia Gallery
Rebuilding The Renaissance
While most people visit the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy, to see Michelangelo’s great statue of “David,” there is much more to this museum. The Accademia is also home to masterpieces by Botticelli, Lippi, Giambologna, Perugino, Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo, as well as Michelangelo’s unfinished “Slaves."
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Episode 347 - Florence - Museum of Orsanmichele
Rebuilding The Renaissance
Built in the 14th century, the Museum of Orsanmichele was originally a grain market, but later turned into a church. The museum is housed inside of this church and includes a beautiful “Madonna and Child by Bernardo Daddi and a magnificent Gothic “Tabernacle” by Orcagna on the ground floor, as well as many sculptural masterpieces by Donatello, Ghiberti, Verrocchio, and Giambologna on the first floor. The upper-most floor of the museum offers breathtaking 360° views of the surrounding city of Florence.
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Episode 346 - Florence - The Casa Buonarroti Museum
Rebuilding The Renaissance
Once a property owned and lived in by Michelangelo, the Casa Buonarroti Museum was created by the famous artist’s nephew to celebrate the legacy of his famous uncle. The museum contains Michelangelo’s two earliest known sculptures - “The Madonna of the Stairs” and “The Battle of the Centaurs,” his spectacular wooden model for the facade of San Lorenzo and the world’s largest collection of Michelangelo drawings. There is also a group of paintings celebrating Michelangelo by important 17th-century artists including Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Episode 345 - Florence – The Bargello Museum Part III
Rebuilding The Renaissance
The collection of sculptures on the ground floor of the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy, contains one of the world’s most important collections of 16th-century sculptures, including Michelangelo’s “Bacchus” and “Pitti Tondo,” Giambologna’s “Mercury” and “Florence Triumphing over Pisa,” and Cellini’s wax bozzetto (or small model) for his “Perseus with the Head of Medusa.”
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Episode 344 - Florence – The Bargello Museum Part II
Rebuilding The Renaissance
The collection of sculptures in the great hall of the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy, located on the second floor, contains one of the world’s most important collections of sculptures, including Ghiberti’s and Brunelleschi’s “Competition Panels,” Donatello’s marble and bronze “Davids” and “St. George,” and Verrocchio’s bronze “David.”
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Episode 343 - Florence: The Bargello Museum - Part I
Rebuilding The Renaissance
The building that houses the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy, is the earliest example of civic architecture in Florence, built in 1255. Today it houses one of the world’s greatest collections of Renaissance sculpture, including works by Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, Giambologna, and Bernini.
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Episode 342 - Florence: Museo dell”Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Museum) Part 4
Rebuilding The Renaissance
This podcast explores the extraordinary artwork found on the second floor (Primo Piano) of the Cathedral Museum of Florence, including the beautiful belltower sculptures by Donatello, the “Cantorie” by Donatello and Luca della Robbia, and the Neo-Gothic façade proposals.
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Episode 341 - Florence – Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Museum) Part III
Rebuilding The Renaissance
This podcast examines two of the greatest sculptures of all time – Donatello’s “Penitent Magdalene” and Michelangelo’s “Florence Pietà” – which are part of amazing collection of the Museo dell”Opera del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
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Episode 340 - Florence: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Museum) Part 2
Rebuilding The Renaissance
The Cathedral Museum of Florence, Italy, contains the three original bronze doors from Florence Baptistry by Andrea Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti. This podcast analyzes history, style, and influence of all three masterpieces.
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Episode 339 - Florence – Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Museum) Part 1
Rebuilding The Renaissance
The Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence is one of the world’s premier sculpture museums with works by Donatello, Ghiberti, and Michelangelo. This podcast examines the history of the museum and its spectacular reconstruction of the original early 14th-century façade of Florence Cathedral.
info_outlineOnce the site of an ancient stadium used for athletics (“agones”), the Piazza Navona is arguably Rome’s most famous piazza. It was renovated during the reign of Pope Innocent X in the middle of the 17th century and contains some of Rome’s most spectacular monuments such as Bernini’s “Fountain of the Four Rivers.”