The main attraction was the actual David - a lot bigger than you would expect. Leading up to it is the gallery of Michaelangelo's Prisoners, unfinished sculptures that seem to be emerging from the stone. There was also a whole room full of plaster casts and another room with a lot of Medieval images from churches like this one:
These images are very stylised, overdecorated and often contain gold leaf (like in the halo here).
They were sadly all lumped together squashed into two small rooms on the way out as everyone wanted to really see the Renaissance images that followed this stage of art. There is a certain beauty in them however and an amusement value, faking dripping blood just looks funny.
The David is the real attraction here but there are also two copies of it in outdoor locations in Florence, both of which we visited, one is marble and one is bronze.
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