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Home of Michelangelo David, the Galleria dell Accademia in Florence is among the most visited art museums in Italy, a relatively small institution whose extraordinary holdings of late medieval and Renaissance Florentine art make it a fixture on every visitor itinerary. The museum opened in 1784 by order of Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, to provide a study collection for the students of the adjacent academy of fine arts. Michelangelo five-metre marble of David, carved between 1501 and 1504 and move...