Bargello - Table of Contents
Sculpture - Bargello National Museum
(pronounced:
bar jello)
AKA: Palazzo del Bargello,
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, or Palazzo del Popolo (Palace of the
People)
Florence, Italy
On this page, below:
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Bacchus
Giovanni Della Robbia, Lamentation
Santi Buglioni, Noli Me Tangere
February
2020 Photos
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  Hermes/Mercury ... "The
most celebrated sculpture by Giambologna is the Mercury,
known in four
versions whose chronology is uncertain .... The fourth, a
flying variant in Florence was completed by 1580, when it
became a
fountain figure at the Villa Medici, Rome. Mercury balances on a bronze
column of air issuing from the mouth of Zephyr, over which
flowed water, increasing the illusion that he was floating. ... The god
assumes an arabesque, balanced precariously on his toes, and points
upward to Jupiter. It is Mannerist in that it can be appreciated from
all angles and is elongated and elegant; yet these features contrast
with its amazing physicality and an evident study of weights and
balances. " - Web
Gallery of Art: Mercury (online March 2020)
Six details below:    Caduceus   Zephyr, the west wind  Hermes/Mercury |
  Madonna and Child ... Four details below:  Note St. John the Baptist in upper left ... St. John is more frequently found depicted with the baby Jesus in art in Europe than in the US  Madonna  St. John the Baptist  Jesus |
  Bacchus ... Four details below:  Note grapes  Satyr eating grapes   Note satyr's goat legs  Bacchus |
  Icon ... Mosaic ... Pantocrator ... Two details below:   Pantocrator |
  Crucifixion ... Three details below:    Crucifixion |
  David ... Six details below:  Decapitated Goliath      Decapitated Goliath |
  David ... 1408-1409 ... Four details below:     Decapitated Goliath ... See a later Donatello statue David below: |
| See an
earlier Donatello statue David above. (Michaelangelo's David: 1501-1504)   David ... 1440-1457(?) ... Five details below:    Decapitated Goliath  |
  This Saint George statue was sculpted between the two above David statues. ...  Flanking pinnacles ... Finial atop pediment ... Gothic style trefoil arch    Saint George |
  Lamentation ... Two details below:  Pelican and chicks ... INRI ... Crown of thorns  Lamentation |
  Noli Me Tangere ... Note lower left predella: St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata   St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata |
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  "Nativity" is located on the back wall ... Five details below:     God the Father ... Holy Spirit depicted as a dove  St. John the Baptist, dressed in hair shirt, in between Jospephj and Mary ... St. John is more frequently found depicted with the baby Jesus in art in Europe than in the US. |
