Bargello, 2022

We went to the Bargello again, largely to see the "Donatello and the Renaissance" exhibit there. IMHO, it was largely a rearrangement of pieces already there with some added verbiage. Minor stuff from elsewhere. More of the exhibit was at the Palazzo Strozzi, a few blocks away, but by then we were too tired and unimpressed to visit. Besides, there was a long, long Renaissance staircase. In any case, the matter caused me to reflect that most of Donatello's work was either affixed to something else (a pulpit, a baptismal font, etc.), or too massive to move at all (e.g., the Gattmelata full-sized equestrian statue in Padua). So what was I expecting? 

Previous visits to the Bargello include https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/06/bargello.html and https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/10/bargello-2013.html. But we still found a number of things worth noting.

The Bargello, formerly city hall, then police station, 
then jail, now one of Florence's great museums

Exhibit verbiage [click to enlarge]

Donatello's David Victorious; first full-scale nude
male sculpture since Classical times; still controversial

As Vicki noted, the face is that of a young man,
the body of a youth

Small model for a later version (from Berlin)

And another, unfinished, worked on by a disciple

Unusual dorsal view of Michaelangelo's tipsy
Bacchus

Michaelangelo's David/Apollo...unfinished because
the guy who commissioned it was beheaded for treason

The one new thing, to us, was the Dudley Madonna,
which normally resides in the V&A, a relief by Donatello,
which was the beginning of a genre...a genuinely tender
and touching representation

Thus

Disciple Desiderio de Settignano's version

Michaelangelo's version

Moving right along, a re-positioning of a fountain setting from
the Pitti Palace; the water squirts out from sorts of interesting
places

Nice pipe collection from the assorted knick-knack rooms

Holy fly-swatter

You don't believe me? Read the above...

Something very strange going on between Ledo and the Swan