Donatello's David is seen as the beginning of the Renaissance. None of the Museums in Florence allowed picture taking - but I did get this one in before they started yelling at me. We were able to see the 3 main museums - the Bargello, the Uffizi and the L'Accadamie in one day and were pretty much in a state of brain freeze - feeling something like eating ice cream way too fast, only it lasted longer. This piece along with Botticelli's Venus and Primavera pieces and Michaelangelo's David and Prisoners were the stars. The progression from the flat medieval religious scenes to the Renaissance rediscovery of perspective, shapes, the human fugure and humanism in general was also nicely displayed in the Uffizi.