In the ground-floor hall, among the other 16th century sculptures, there are some of Michelangelo's masterpieces. These include the Drunken Bacchus, the first of the great master's large-scale sculptures and made in 1497.

Then there is the Apollo, dating to 1531, a tondo of the Madonna and Child with the infant St John the Baptist, dated around 1505, and the vigorously sculpted bust of Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, made around 1539, and finished by Michelangelo's friend and co-worker Tiberio Calcagni.
The first floor hall contains works by Donatello. Along with his St George, sculpted in 1416 for the church of Orsanmichele, you will see the youthful St John the Baptist made, it seems, for the Martelli family, and above all you should look at the splendid bronze statue of David, but which in reality is a portrait of the young god Mercury after he had conquered and killed the giant Argus. This is a truly magnificent statue because of both its formal beauty and the perfection of its casting. Donatello succeeds in bringing back to life the age of Policletus and Praxiteles, the famed sculptors of ancient Greece.
Another of Donatello's bronzes which is worth admiring is the very charming Attis Eros, a laughing joyful young boy whose Phrygian trousers are open at the front in typical fashion.