Here, there, and everywhere (Tuscany Day 5)

In the morning of the 20th, we went together to the Galleria dell’Academia, which holds among many other things the original of Michelangelo’s David and his Four Prisoners.

Afterwards we split up. Pauline went to the Palazzo Medici Riccardi (home to the Medici in the 15th-16th Centuries) and the Palazzo Vecchio (including a special exhibition of Damien Hurst’s diamond skull).

I went to the the Duomo museum and then to the Tuscan Archaeological Museum, with it’s wonderful collection of early Etruscan artifacts and surprisingly good collection of pre- and early Dynastic Egyptian objects and pre-Classical Greek items.

In the evening we went out to dinner at the outstanding dei Frescobaldi just off the Piazza della Signoria.