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6 Museo dell’Opera
del Duomo
Works from the Duomo,
Campanile and Baptistry are A r n o
displayed in this museum.

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See Florence Street Finder map 6 Carving from Luca della Robbia’s choir loft
VIA FOLCO PORTINARI in the Museo dell’Opera

6 Museo dell’Opera
del Duomo

VIA DELL’ORIVOLO Piazza del Duomo. Map 2 D5 (6 E2).
Tel 055 230 28 85. Open 9am–7pm
daily (to 9pm Mon, Fri, Sat). Closed
1st Tue of month. & 7
∑ ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it
The Cathedral Works Museum
has so far undergone extensive
remodelling, and now a series
Badia Fiorentina, the of rooms is dedicated to the
V I A D E L L ’ O C H E abbey church founded history of the Duomo. The main
ground-floor room holds statues
in 978, is home to The
B O R G O D E G L I A L B I Z I Virgin Appearing to St from Arnolfo di Cambio’s
workshop which were once
Bernard (1485) by
Filippino Lippi.
placed in the cathedral’s niches.
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Nearby is Donatello’s St John.
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Another room contains 14th-
V I A D E L C O R S O D L and 15th-century religious

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paintings and reliquaries.
V I A D E ’ PA N D O L F I N I Michelangelo’s Pietà has pride

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of place on the staircase. The
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is widely believed to be a
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floor contains two choir lofts,
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dating to the 1430s, by Luca
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della Robbia and Donatello.
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Carved in crisp white marble
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and decorated with coloured
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glass and mosaic, both depict
P I A Z Z A D I children playing musical
instruments and dancing.
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V I A D E L L C O N D O T T A Donatello in this room
Other works by
are his statue of La Maddalena
(1455) and several Old
Testament figures.
9 . Bargello The room to the left contains
The city’s old prison is an exhibition of the tablets
Casa di Dante, a home to a rich that used to decorate the bell
tower. A lower level houses
restored medieval collection of applied examples of the tools used by
house, is reputedly arts and sculpture,
Dante’s birthplace. including this figure Brunelleschi’s workmen and a
of Mercury by copy of di Cambio’s original
Giambologna (1564). cathedral façade.
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