First day of opening ( It has been closed fore years.) It was free and there was a huge line, but I waited in the after lunch line ( it is closed for lunch) and didn't have to wait long. In line, I met 2 Mormon's from Salt Lake City and a girl from San Francisco that is renting out her apartment in SF and bumming around Italy. She is a video artist...so, interesting time spent waiting.
Masterpieces
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 Museo dell'Opera provides the ideal setting for the works of art made for these buildings, which today form a single group known as the "Great Museum of the Cathedral".
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