Museo Nazionale del Bargello

The palace of the Bargello museum was originally home to Florence’s early administrative offices. It then became the headquarters of the bargello, a military figure in the Middle Ages (something like today’s chief of police).

The building has also been used as a jail and was the police headquarters until 1860. In 1865 the Bargello Museum was opened and is dedicated to the arts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (sculptures) dating from from the 14th to the 17th century (1300 - 1600).

The Museum holds works by Donatello, Della Robbia, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo. The ground floor is dominated by Michelangelo and his Bacco (Bacchus): the sculpture depicts a drunken and staggering Bacchus, accompanied by a mischievous child satyr who secretly bites into a grape.

Another celebrated statue by Donatello is the sculpture of St. George, the patron saint of armorers, one of the large guilds founded in Florence.

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