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Pictures, sculpture, miniatures and furniture from the 14th to 18th century
Housed in the recreation room of Brunelleschi’s foundlings hospital, Galleria dello Spedale degli Innocenti received a substantial blow in 1853, when several important works were auctioned off (for a relative pittance) to raise money for the hospital.
The remaining pieces include an unsurprising concentration of Madonna and Bambino pieces, including a Botticelli and a vivid Luca della Robbia. The high point, however, is Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi, commissioned for the high altar of the hospital’s church.
Galleria dello Spedale
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 12, Florence
Phone: 055 2037323
Website: http://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/culturali/museo.jsf
Open Hours: 8.30am-7pm Mon-Sat; 8.30am-2pm Sun.
Categories: Classic art, Specialty galleries
Price: Cost money