Masterpieces

Over 750 works of art covering 720 years of history
The largest concentration of Florentine monumental sculpture in the world includes medieval and Renaissance statues and reliefs in marble, bronze and silver by the leading artists of the era. Most of the masterpieces on display were specifically designed to adorn the interior or exterior of the religious monuments that still stand on the museum's doorstep: the Baptistry of San Giovanni, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the "Duomo") and Giotto's Bell Tower. The Opera Duomo Museum provides the ideal setting for the works of art made for these buildings, which today form a single group known as the monumental complex of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore.

Girolamo Ticciati, Saint John the Baptist in Glory

Arnolfo di Cambio, Glass-eyed Madonna with St. Reparata and St. Zanobi

Arnolfo di Cambio and workshop, Pope Boniface VIII and two prophets

Lorenzo Ghiberti, North Gate of the Baptistery

Andrea Pisano, South Gate of the Baptistery

Giotto, Madonna of San Giorgio alla Costa

Bernardo Daddi (attr.), Saint Catherine of Alexandria and donor

Byzantine art, Cosimo Merlini and Bernardo Holzmann, Cross of the Grand Duchess

Donatello and Nanni di Bartolo, Abraham and Isaac

Andrea Pisano, Panels from the west side of Giotto's bell tower

Niccolò Barabino, Christ Enthroned with the Madonna and Saints

Filippo Brunelleschi, Architectural model of the dome and of two tribunes

Baccio Bandinelli and Giovanni Bandini dell'Opera, Twenty-four bas-reliefs

Antonio Pollaiolo and Betto di Francesco Betti, Silver Cross of the Baptistery

Various artists, Silver Altar of the Baptistery