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As a museum conceived primarily for students of Florentine painting from the 13th to 16th centuries, the Accademia Gallery (Galleria dell’Accademia) (Via Ricasoli, 60) ranks high on Florence’s must-see list.
His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.
Michelangelo's metamorphic wit, somewhere between the nightmare transformations of his fellow Florentine Dante Alighieri and the baroque fantasies of Lorenzo Bernini, is nowhere better displayed than in his famous drawing of Phaëthon's fall.
Inside, on the first floor, is a museum of typical Florentine domestic life from the 14th to 16th centuries, with furniture, utensils, and ceramics — the most attractive are in the Sala dei Pappagalli (Parrots’ Hall) with its trompe l’œil tapestries frescoed on the walls.
The truly mind-boggling variety of that collection begins to register as you pass the 104-ft- (32-m-) long Roman mosaic swimming pool, complete with Greek colonnade and a copy of Donatello’s Florentine statue of David.
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