Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Medieval fortress-prison turned Renaissance sculpture museum, home to Donatello bronze David.
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This guide to the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence opens on December 29, 1479, with a hanged corpse swinging from a window of this building, Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli, tracked down after the Pazzi conspiracy's killing of Giuliano de Medici. A young Leonardo da Vinci stood in the crowd and sketched the body in careful detail, and you'll hear about his father's own ties to the building as a notary here. The guide also traces the Bargello's earlier life as a thirteenth-century courthouse and later police headquarters, where suspects were tortured and the condemned hanged in the courtyard.
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