Palazzo Pitti
Vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy.
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Florence
City in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region.
The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics.
Ponte Vecchio
Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy.
In contemporary times, despite being closed to vehicular traffic, the bridge is crossed by a considerable pedestrian flow generated both by the notoriety of the place itself and by the fact that it connects places of high tourist interest on the two banks of the river: piazza del Duomo, piazza della Signoria on one side with the area of Palazzo Pitti and Santo Spirito in the Oltrarno.
Rustication (architecture)
Range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.
Also in Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, begun 1489, with large oblong rounded cushions, and the front of the Palazzo Pitti, begun 1458, rusticated their whole facades in the same style.
Palazzo Vecchio
Town hall of Florence, Italy.
The building acquired its current name when the Medici duke's residence was moved across the Arno River to the Palazzo Pitti.
Marie de' Medici
Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV of France of the House of Bourbon, and Regent of the Kingdom of France officially between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII of France.
Born at the Palazzo Pitti of Florence, Italy on 26 April 1575, Maria was the sixth daughter of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Archduchess Joanna of Austria.
Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
In Florence, Vasari also built the long passage, now called Vasari Corridor, which connects the Uffizi with the Palazzo Pitti on the other side of the river.
Corps de logis
Principal block of a large, , mansion or palace.
Examples of a corps de logis can be found in many of the most notable Classical Era buildings of Europe including the Palace of Versailles, Blenheim Palace, and the Palazzo Pitti.
Luxembourg Palace
At 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Marie de' Medici desired to make a building similar to her native Florence's Palazzo Pitti; to this effect she had the architect Métezeau (either Louis Métezeau or his brother, Clément Métezeau) sent to Florence to make detailed drawings of the building.
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859, replacing the Republic of Florence.
Ferdinando was obsessed with new technology, and had several hygrometers, barometers, thermometers, and telescopes installed in the Pitti.
Eleanor of Toledo
Spanish noblewoman and Duchess of Florence as the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici.
A keen businesswoman, she financed many of her husband's political campaigns and important buildings like the Pitti Palace.