San Lorenzo Market is junk.
The Duomo Museum is amazing, full of sculpture and friezes removed in earlier remodelings. The Donatello figures are instantly recognizable - you know them at once. The faces are mobile, emotional - hard to believe they are not flesh. The Penitent Magdalene looks very modern. Reminds me of Giacometti. Every line of it speaks misery. This museum and San Marco are my favorites so far.
Santa Croce has altars to various saints arrayed all the length of the side walls. The Donatello crucifix looks very modern. Tombs of Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Pazzi Chapel.
I used Rick Steve's audio tour of the Uffizi. It is an abbreviated art history course, but ignores a lot. I would like to do the Uffizi again without it. My feet are screaming and I don't know how they are going to carry me back to Il Bargellino.
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