Word: bargello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring...
...huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade...