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On one of the first shows, 'Kaleidoscope Bargello,' my able and handsome director, Russ Fortier, angled the camera slightly from the side and fairly far away, so that when I said, 'Count six threads up and one thread over,' I appeared to be working on a solid piece of fabric without any visible threads at all.

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1-3), a nearly life-size sculpture depicting a young male nude from the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, remained in the artist's studio when he left Florence for Rome in 1534 never to return.

And the Bargello, functioning as the National Museum in Florence, Italy since 1865-housing Gothic decorative arts, medals of the Medici family collection, Baroque jewels, and sculptures from the 14th through 17th centuries-was once a prison in a building dating back to 1255.

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The Curators, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi of Florence's Bargello Museum of sculpture and Marc Bormand of the Louvre, recognise that the excitement of the period cannot be explained or described in simply artistic terms.

At the height of his powers, Bernini carved an astonishingly informal marble bust of a buxom young woman turning to her left (1636-37; Florence, Bargello).

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IF the newlyweds want to take in the sights, here's what's hot in Florence: ARTWORK: Visit the many sculptures at the Bargello gallery.

Travelers can visit the famed Piazza del Duomo and observe a treasure-trove of Renaissance paintings and sculptures at the Uffizi Gallery and the Bargello National Museum.

I came across this medal at the Bargello in Florence.

The rooms at the National Museum of the Bargello devoted to Renaissance maiolica and the various tabernacles and tympana in glazed terracotta scattered around the city have a difficult time competing with Florence's other attractions.

On display in Florence's Bargello museum until 1888, the sculptures were then moved to the Capannoli Villa near Pisa, and ultimately ended up on the antiquarian market.