Accademia Gallery

Visitors from all over the world come to Accademia Gallery in Florence to gaze upon David, the most famous nude male in the history of art. Several other masterpieces by Michelangelo including The Prisoners are housed here.

Michelangelo was twenty-five years of age when in 1501 he started to work on the statue of David. It took three years to complete and when finished it was the largest sculpture since the Roman period, standing 4 meters and 10 centimeters in height. 

David is the symbol of Renaissance virile beauty and now the object of particular devotion by tourists from all over the world.

The Prisoners

Huge and terrible they have bodies who fight to escape from their marble prison in a physical and spiritual struggle. 

Michelangelo worked for almost forty years on these sculptures, but they were never completed. They are magnificent examples of Michelangelo's so called "Unfinished Style".