The Galleria Palatina is located in the front rooms of the Pitti Palace in Florence's Oltrarno quarter. The more than 500 paintings in this gallery's vast collection stem mostly from the private collections of the Medici family. The Galleria Palatina has one of the most important collections of...
Elenora of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, initiated the landscaping of the Boboli Gardens, directed originally by Niccolu Pericoli detto Tribolo, and later by Davide Fortini and Giorgio Vasari. Numerous 15th and 17th century marble statues, an outdoor amphitheater, a grotto and multiple fountains compliment the...
The Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine is a stunning example of Renaissance art and Florentine history. Comissioned by a wealthy Florentine silk merchant in the 1420s, the chapel was decorated in frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino depicting the life of St. Peter and...
After serving for many centuries as a prison and police station, the fortress-like Bargello was transformed into the National Museum of Sculpture in 1886 - on Donatello's five-hundredth birthday. The Bargello's courtyard, loggia and frescoed rooms are filled with marble and bronze masterpieces by Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini, Bernini and others....
The Medici Chapels, attached to the apse of the church of San Lorenzo, consist of two distinct spaces containing Medici family tombs from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Chapel of the Princes, designed by Don Giovanni de' Medici, was begun in 1604 by Matteo Nigetti, and completed by Buontalenti,...
Over 50 panel paintings of Fra Angelico decorate the walls of San Marco. Angelico, who resided at the San Marco monastery between 1438 and 1445 painted scenes of the Annunciation and stories of the life of Christ, offering a sense of timelessness and tranquility to guide the monks in their...
The Archaeological Museum is one of Florence’s hidden gems, housing a large and impressive collection of Egyptian and Etruscan, as well as Greek and Roman artifacts and art. The collection originally began with the Medici who were fascinated by Italy’s early inhabitants, the Etruscans. As archaeology reached its...
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