One hundred years after its founding, the Modern Art Gallery of Pitti Palace exhibits and narrates its 20th-century collections. 

Paintings and sculptures from Neoclassicism to the 1930s: the greatest exponents of Italian art in the sumptuous residence of the Grand Dukes of Habsburg-Lorraine

Between public and private court life: a Palace for three dynasties

Pitti Palace

Gallery of Modern Art

The Gallery of Modern Art is located in the rooms once inhabited by the Habsburg-Lorraine family on the second floor of Pitti Palace, from which there is a magnificent view over Florence and the Boboli Gardens. Its collections of paintings and sculptures, ranging from the end of the 18th century until the first decades of the 20th century, are still being added to through donations and purchases. Once inhabited by the Grand Dukes of Habsburg-Lorraine, these sumptuous rooms host Neoclassical and Romantic artworks and numerous important paintings by the Macchiaioli school, mainly from Diego Martelli&rsquo;s collection. There is indeed a considerable number of historical paintings in the Gallery, including the well-known landscapes of the Maremma area by Giovanni Fattori, leading artist of the Macchiaioli movement. The 19th-century itinerary concludes with works of Symbolist&nbsp;and Divionist movements. Among the various painters on display: F. Hayez, S. Lega, T. Signorini, G. Fattori, C. Pissarro, M. Rosso, G. Boldini, P. Nomellini.

Lights on the 20th Century. The hundredth anniversary of the Gallery of Modern Art of Pitti Palace 1914 - 2014

The exhibition, a new addition to the "I mai visti" series, features 81 icons owned by the Florentine Galleries, constituting the oldest collection of Russian sacred images outside the Orthodox world.

The oldest collection of Russian icons in Western Europe

Museum of Russian Icons

The collection of Russian icons is the most ancient selection of this genre outside ancient Ruthenia (which loosely corresponds to Ukraine, Belarus and Western Russia today). With the exception of a few specimens that had belonged to the Medici that date back to the 16th-17th centuries, the icons entered the collection of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany under the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty before 1761. The collection is exhibited on the ground floor of Palazzo Pitti in the rooms that were part of the summer apartment decorated for the future Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III, and his bride Marguerite Louise d&rsquo;Orleans, when they married in 1661. The centrepiece of the apartment was the large central hall, which Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo of Habsburg-Lorraine decided to turn into the Palatine Chapel in 1766.

The Russian Icons Collection at the Uffizi. The 14th edition of the “I mai visti” exhibition series. Masterpieces from the Uffizi storage.

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

The Palatine Gallery shows a series of maps, images of the territory and historical events such as celebrations and battles.  

The Medici’s collections of paintings on display with a vast array of sumptuous frames, furnishings, stuccoes, silks and Baroque frescoes

Palatine Gallery

The Palatine Gallery and Royal and Imperial Apartments occupy the entire first floor of Pitti Palace, which was the residence of the Medici dynasty, then of Habsburg-Lorraine one and lastly of the House of Savoy, hosting the King of Italy from 1865&nbsp;to 1919. The lavish Gallery was founded between the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century by the Habsburg-Lorraine family, who hung about 500 masterpieces in the ceremonial rooms chosen from the main Medici&rsquo;s collections. It is an impressive selection, which includes the largest concentration of paintings by Raphael in the world of, as well as invaluable works by Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens. The paintings in their lavish frames entirely cover the walls of the rooms which are enriched by sculptures, vases and tables with semi-precious stone inlays, typical of 17th-century galleries.&nbsp;The sensational series of frescoes by Pietro da Cortona for Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de&rsquo; Medici, realized between 1640 and 1647 in the &ldquo;Planet Rooms&rdquo;, adds to the unique charm of the Gallery, where every work of art is enhanced by the setting and the furnishings

From the storage 1. Portraits of countries, seas and cities

The Costume Gallery dedicates an exhibition to the great costume designer Piero Tosi on the occasion of the bestowal of the Honorary Academy Award and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Tirelli Costumi.

Museum of Costume and Fashion

The collections of the Museum of Costume and Fashion will be exhibited again on a date to be determined and the &quot;Palazzina della Meridiana&quot; now is closed.The Museum of Costume and Fashion (formerly known as the Costume Gallery) is located in the Palazzina della Meridiana next to the southern wing of Pitti Palace. Started under Grand Duke of Tuscany Peter Leopold by architect Gaspero Maria Paoletti in 1776 and completed in 1830 by Pasquale Poccianti under Grand Duke Leopold II, the building takes its name from the astronomical instrument made by Vincenzo Viviani in 1699. The instrument is in the vestibule &ndash; with the gnomon pinhole &ndash; of Grand Prince Ferdinando de&rsquo; Medici&rsquo;s apartment. Anton Domenico Gabbiani depicted the Allegory of Time and the Arts (1693) in the vault of the vestibule. All the successive dynasties, from the Habsburg-Lorraine family to the House of Savoy, including the regency of Maria Luisa of Parma and the brief reign of Elisa Baciocchi, left their mark on furnishings and decorative wall paintings. Founded in 1983, it was the first State museum in Italy dedicated to the history of fashion and its social significance. Displayed in rotation for conservation reasons,&nbsp;its collections include clothes, jewellery and accessories from the 18th century to today, along with a captivating group of stage costumes worn by movie, theatre and opera stars in works helmed by reknowned&nbsp;20th-century directors. Among ancient garments, the 16th-century funeral clothes&nbsp;of Cosimo I de&rsquo; Medici, Eleanor&nbsp;of Toledo and their son Garzia de&rsquo; Medici have&nbsp;been completely restored and are&nbsp;part of the permanent collection on display.&nbsp;

A Tribute to the Maestro Piero Tosi. The art of stage costumes from the Tirelli donation

The exhibition seeks to overturn the commonplace of the conservative Florentine culture, revealing the force of novelty also present in that branch of local art that, between the 15th and 17th centuries, remained faithful to its models, highlighting the "novelty of tradition".

Pure, Simple, and Natural in Art in 16th- and 17th-century Florence

Precious religious artefacts from the Chapel of the Relics, a symbol of the devotion of the Grand Duchess of Tuscany and of the last Medici Grand Dukes

A rich collection of decorative arts in the Medici’s sumptuous Summer Apartments

Treasury of the Grand Dukes

Formerly known as the Silver Museum, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes&nbsp;is located on the ground and mezzanine floors of Pitti Palace, and comprises the rooms that were once the summer apartments of the Medici family. Its walls, entirely frescoed on the occasion of the wedding&nbsp;between&nbsp;Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de&rsquo;Medici and Vittoria della Rovere (1637), are one of the first examples of quadrature and trompe-l&rsquo;oeil perspective in Florence. It houses the precious &ldquo;Medici&rsquo;s Treasure&rdquo;: semi-precious stone vases, rock crystals, ambers and ivories. The silverware comes from the &ldquo;Treasure of Salzburg&rdquo; - the collections of the Bishops of Salzburg - and was brought to Florence by Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand&nbsp;III of Habsburg-Lorraine. The Museum also houses an important collection of jewellery realized&nbsp;between the 17th and 20th centuries and has a large section dedicated to contemporary jewellery.

Sacred splendours. The treasure of the Chapel of the Relics in the Pitti Palace

Jacopo Ligozzi and his multifaceted and versatile physiognomy on the Florentine panorama. A monographic show at the Palatine Gallery in collaboration with the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Uffizi Gallery

Jacopo Ligozzi “Universal Painter” (Verona 1549 c. - Florence 1627)

The history of the twentieth century through an elegant and precious garment; the royal courts and the great Parisian tailors

The court cloak of Donna Franca Florio

A systematic recovery of pictorial masterpieces of the Palatine Gallery in collaboration with Opificio delle Pietre Dure

Sebastiano del Piombo and painting on stone: the portrait of Baccio Valori - Restoration and Research

The Belgian self-portraits; example of the richness and international dimension of the Florentine collection 

The Belgian self-portraits of the Uffizi. From the nineteenth century to the present

A small but precious exhibition which highlights the elegance and the value of the tapestry collection 