Palazzo Pitti

Luca Pitti (1398–1472) began work on the palazzo in 1458.

Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence, bought the palazzo from the Pitti in 1549 for the Medici. Portrait after Bronzino.

19th-century architectural drawing and plan of the Palazzo Pitti

Cornice of the Jupiter Room, showing lunette frescoes and stucco work by Pietro da Cortona.

Artemisia Gentileschi Judith and her hand servant with the head of Holofernes 1613–1618

Close-up of Canova's Venere Italica (1810) as seen in Room of Venus

Mary Stuart at Crookstone, by Giovanni Fattori, in the Gallery of Modern Art at the Palazzo Pitti.

The "Casino del Cavaliere" in the Boboli Gardens now houses the porcelain museum.

Raphael Madonna del Granduca. 84 × 55 cm.

Raphael Madonna of the Canopy. 276 × 224 cm.

Raphael Portrait of Agnolo Doni. 63 × 45 cm.

Raphael Madonna della Seggiola. Diameter 71 cm.

Raphael Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami. 90 × 62 cm.

Raphael and Assistants Madonna dell'Impannata. 158 × 125 cm.

Titian Portrait of Vincenzo Mosti. 85 × 67 cm.

Titian Portrait of Pope Julius II. 99 × 82 cm.

Peter Paul Rubens The Four Philosophers. 167 × 143 cm.

Peter Paul Rubens Consequences of War. 206 × 342 cm.

Peter Paul Rubens Madonna of the Basket. 114 × 80 cm.

Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio. 195 × 147 cm.

Filippo Lippi Bartolini Tondo. Diameter 135 cm

Caravaggio Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli. 118 × 95 cm.

Giorgione The Three Ages of Man. 62 × 77 cm.

Paolo Veronese Portrait of a Gentleman in a Fur. 140 × 107 cm.

Fra Bartolomeo Lamentation. 158 × 199 cm.

Andrea del Sarto Pietà with Saints. 239 × 199 cm.

Vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy.

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Florence

City in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region.

View of Florence by Hartmann Schedel, published in 1493

Julius Caesar established Florence in 59 BC.

The Goth King Totila razes the walls of Florence during the Gothic War: illumination from the Chigi manuscript of Villani's Cronica.

Leonardo da Vinci statue outside the Uffizi Gallery

Girolamo Savonarola being burnt at the stake in 1498. The brooding Palazzo Vecchio is at centre right.

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and his family. Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Porte Sante cemetery, burial place of notable figures of Florentine history

1/5 Mahratta Light Infantry, Florence, 28 August 1944

Florence with snow cover in December 2009

Seats in the Florence City Council
(2019–2024)

1835 City Map of Florence, still largely in the confines of its medieval city centre

Ponte Vecchio, which spans the Arno river

Florence in the evening --Same picture as above. The same picture--

Ponte Santa Trinita with the Oltrarno district

The city of Florence as seen from the hill of Fiesole

Florence Duomo as seen from Michelangelo hill

Panorama composite, overview of Firenze, taken from the Giardino Bardini viewpoint

Replica of David and other statues, Piazza della Signoria

Tourists flock to the Fontana del Porcellino.

Tourists and restaurant in the Piazza del Duomo

Botticelli's Venus, stored in the Uffizi

The Uffizi are the 10th most visited art museum in the world.

The Palazzo della Signoria, better known as the Palazzo Vecchio (English: The Old Palace)

The introduction of the Decameron (1350–1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio

A display of proboscideans in the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, or the Natural History Museum of Florence

Luxury boutiques along Florence's prestigious Via de' Tornabuoni

Rectorate's auditorium of University of Florence

Mobikes at Parco delle Cascine, Florence

The traditional boroughs of the whole comune of Florence

The 5 administrative boroughs of the whole comune of Florence

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.

Vasari Corridor from Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti

Damage shown shortly after liberation in August 1944 during World War II

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.

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below.

Extreme Mannerist "cyclopian" rustication at the Palace of Fontainebleau

Illustration to Serlio, rusticated doorway of the type now called a Gibbs surround, 1537

Courtyard of Somerset House in London, mostly smooth-faced "V" joints, but with vermiculated square blocks around the Gibbs surround to the door.

Regular smooth-faced rustication (left) turns to horizontal banded rustication at the corner of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, England.

Two adjacent vermiculated blocks showing rather different interpretations of the pattern.

Sicilian Baroque pilasters with two types of prismatic rustication against a smooth background at the University of Catania

Simple smooth-faced rustication in wood at Mount Vernon; an imitation of European style popular in America

"V" joints and roughened faces within a flat margin, Giulio Romano for his house in Mantua

Vermiculation at 286 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris

An unusual pattern book of effects in the Loggia di Giulio Romano in Mantua

"Frost-work" on the Diana Fountain, London, c. 1690

Smooth-faced rustication with the blocks dropping back to the wall at 90°, rather than a "V" chamfer

Quoins only, with long and short strips, on a Czech railway station

Banded, with "elbows" and very wide joints, Cleveland, Ohio

Banded rustication in a wholly modern context, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Late 15th-century gateway to the Palacio de Jabalquinto, with small "diamonds" erupting from ashlar at the sides

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.

Painting of the Palazzo and the square in 1498, during the execution of Girolamo Savonarola

Engraving of a map depicting the palazzo and square with the corridor, by Stefano Buonsignori, 1584

First courtyard with Putto with Dolphin by Verrocchio in the middle, and frescoes of Austrian cities on the wall by Vasari

Salone dei Cinquecento. West Wall at left. East Wall at Right

Genio della Vittoria by Michelangelo, in the central niche at the south

Detail of a Bronzino fresco in the Cappella di Eleonora

Triumph of Furius Camillus in the Sala dell'Udienza

Map of the British Isles by Ignazio Danti

Angolo Bronzino, Ritratto di Laura Battiferri, collezione Loeser

Cartoon of the Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo, lost fresco West wall

Peter Paul Rubens's copy of Da Vinci's The Battle of Anghiari Cartoon <ref>See page 226 of the 1974 book "The Unknown Leonardo" remarks on the Battle of Anghiari {reference only copyrighted)</ref>

Possible copy of original Da Vinci lost fresco East Wall

View on the West Wall with huge Battle Frescoes 1494 by Vasari & Assistants II. Site of the never done ''Battle of Cascina"

View on the East Wall - Battle Fresco 1575 by Vasari & Assistants.Site of the ruined "Battle of Anghiari"

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.

Maria de' Medici as a child. Currently at the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

Maria de' Medici as a young woman, by Santi di Tito, ca. 1590.

Marie de Médicis, by Pietro Facchetti, c. 1595, Palazzo De Torres-Lancellotti, Rome

Marie de Médicis and her son the Dauphin (future Louis XIII) by Charles Martin, 1603. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois.

Coronation of Marie de' Medici in St. Denis (detail), by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625

Marie de Médicis, by Frans Pourbus the Younger, c. 1606. Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.

Portrait by Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1610. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Marie de Médicis, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622. Museo del Prado.

The reconciliation of mother and son, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622–1625. Louvre Museum.

The exiled Queen Marie de Médicis with coronet overlooking Cologne, by Anthony van Dyck. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Marie de' Medici and her family (1607; by Frans Pourbus the younger).

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.

Six Tuscan Poets by Giorgio Vasari, c. 1544, from left to right: Marsilio Ficino, Cristoforo Landino, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti

The Garden of Gethsemane by Giorgio Vasari

Interior of the dome of Florence Cathedral

Giorgio Vasari with drawings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, and Raffaellino del Garbo

Sala dei Cento Giorni - Giorgio Vasari - 1547 - Palazzo della Cancelleria

Part of Loggia del Mercato Vecchio, Florence, just prior to its demolition in the 1880s

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.

The Luxembourg Palace was modeled after Palazzo Pitti in Florence at the request of Marie de Médicis.

Floor plan (1752) shows the large enclosed cour d'honneur and the long Rubens gallery in the right wing

View of the Palais d'Orléans, c. 1643, with the garden parterre designed by Jacques Boyceau visible behind

Plan of the corp de logis from 1804 to 1836 with the old senate chamber

Plan showing Gisors' garden wing and senate chamber (gray) and Chalgrin's grand staircase (blue)

Library ceiling with Dante's Inferno by Delacroix

View of the south facade and the garden basin

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.