Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

The Bargello Museum houses what is arguably the world’s greatest collection of Renaissance sculptures. Renaissance art expert Dr. Rocky Ruggiero delves into the history of the 13th-century building that houses the collection as well as the sculptural masterpieces that it contains. Among them are the so-called “Competition Panels” by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi depicting the sacrifice of Isaac, Donatello’s marble and bronze statues of “David” and “St. George,” Verrocchio’s “David,” and Michelangelo’s first commissioned sculpture, the “Bacchus.”