Pitti Artists | Situation | Opening Hours Tickets | Authorizations
Artists Raphael | Botticelli Lippi Giorgione | Rubens | Tintoretto | Titian | Caravaggio V.Dyck Murillo | Veronese Vasari | Palace
The Palazzo Pitti and the Palatina Gallery in Florence
The Palazzo Pitti is the largest palace in Florence, with a façade 205 metres long and 36 metres high in the central part.
The courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti In 1458, Luca Pitti, a Florentine merchant and banker, decided to build this palace on the other side of the Arno to counter the rise of the Medici.
His palace was to have seven windows over two floors, but he fell into bad business and work on the palace came to a halt.
It was the Duchess Eleonora of Toledo, the wife of Duke Cosimo I de" Medici, who bought the palace in 1549 with the intention of making it the Medici residence in place of the Palazzo Vecchio
Hall of the Palatina Gallery Bartolomeo Ammannati was commissioned to enlarge the palace. Work began in 1558 and was completed in 1618, culminating in the current palace and the immense Boboli Gardens that occupy the entire hill overlooking the palace.
Once the royal residence of the Medici family, it is now a museum with some very fine works in the part of the palace known as the Galleria Palatina, but most of the palace can be visited, and it's well worth the effort!
Mirgin and Child The Palatina Gallery presents a large number of high-quality works, including many paintings by:
- Raphael,
- Tintoretto,
- Titian,
- Pierre Paul Rubens,
- Filippo Lippi
A smaller number also include:
- Caravaggio,
- Murillo,
- Veronese,
- Van Dyck,
- Giorgione
What a great bunch!
Pitti Artists | Situation | Opening Hours Tickets | Authorizations
Artists Raphael | Botticelli Lippi Giorgione | Rubens | Tintoretto | Titian | Caravaggio V.Dyck Murillo | Veronese Vasari | Palace
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