Presentation of the book by Cecilia Frosinini

Palazzo Pitti. The mural paintings of the Halls of the Planets

Elena Pozzi tells of the large courtyard of the palace which takes its name from its architect, Bartolomeo Ammannati

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

Pitti Palace

The courtyard of Palazzo Pitti

Video in Italian | On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, Valentina Conticelli invites us to discover the Porcelain Museum inside Boboli Gardens

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet

Boboli Gardens

The Porcelain Museum

Video in Italian | At Pitti Palace, some paintings, even of considerable size, can move using ingenious mechanical devices. Patrizia Naldini tell us more about it

The Woman with a Veil by Raphael and the “bilicatura”

Video in Latin | Alessandro Muscillo illustrates in Latin how this masterpiece remains invisible to the eyes and how it turned out to be also...miracolous

The Madonna of the Grand Duke by Raphael illustrated in Latin

Starting from this question a little journey to discover objects that we often forget to look at begins.

#goldenmonday I When you look at a masterpiece, do you notice its frame?

The role of frames in setting up a Baroque picture gallery

#goldenmonday II - Why does a round painting have a square frame?

What do certain strange shapes carved into the frames represent? Deformed faces, monstrous figures, flowers, claws, scales, eagle wings; sometimes the answer is in the painting itself.

#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

Why is Raphael's "La Velata" hung in such a strange way? When there was no artificial light, the workers had the right to move the paintings, making them rotate on their hinges: hence the bilication

#goldenmonday IV - Bilication

Video in Italian | A masterpiece by Aristodemo Costoli and Giovan Battista Giorgi with a base by Giovanni Dupré

The Table of the Muses and the art of semiprecious-stone inlay

Video in Italian | The story of a remarkable masterpiece of the Palatine Gallery

The "Assunta Passerini" by Andrea del Sarto

Video in Italian | In the "Night of the Bridges between 3 and 4 August 1944, all the bridges in Florence were blown up by the retreating Nazi troops.

The Night of the Bridges

Video in Italian | The mystery of the cosmos, the secret of the sacred, the enigma of beauty, all in a painting.

Madonna della Seggiola by Raphael

Video in Italian | Much more than the representation of a historical event. 

The Consequences of War by Pieter Paul Rubens

Imperial and Royal Apartments - The alcove of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici

The Portrait of Four Servants at the Medicean Court by Gabbiani and the role of those figures within the Court itself

Black Presence - III

Video in Italian | Opening doors to some private rooms of the Royal Palace where beauty is an everyday rite

The Apartment of the Duchess of Aosta in Pitti Palace

The Apartment of the Duchess of Aosta in Pitti Palace - ii

Video in Spanish | Sus figuras de mujeres gráciles, delicadas, sus manos lánguidas son el grito silencioso que se ahoga en cuerpos que yacen inútilmente derrotados ante la mirada resignada de quien las mira

Una mujer escultora: Rebeca Matte

Video in Italian | A masterpiece by the master of 16th-century Mannerism

The Dei Altarpiece by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | Live from Pitti Palace - 27 May 2020

The inauguration of the exhibition devoted to Giovanna Garzoni

Video in Spanish | La sala exotica del Tesoro de los Grandes Duques y sus preciosa mascara de Teotihuacan en las palabras de Alejandra Micheli

La magia del antiguo México en Palacio Pitti

Video in Italian | Discovering the collection of precious objects on the ground floor of Pitti Palace

The ivories at the Treasury of Grand Dukes

Video in Italian | Who has never been left once in a lifetime? The fault was Cupid's

Psyche Abandoned by Tenerani

Video in Italian | The statue featuring "The Mother" by Adriano Cecioni

I love you, mum!

Video in Italian | The very private rooms of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine and Maria Luisa of Bourbon

In the Grand Duchess's Bathroom

Video in Spanish | La Virgen con el Niño es datable aproximadamente al 1650, un año dificil para Espana dado el terrible impacto de la peste, que explotò en 1649 


La Virgen con el Niño de Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

A lyrical and profound meditation on pain

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

A dramatic episode from the life of Jesus

The monumental "Ecce Homo" by Antonio Ciseri

The masterpieces by one of the geniuses of art history

Raphael in the Saturn Room of Pitti Palace

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the artist's death

Raphael dying

Entering one of the most captivating premises of Pitti Palace

The Palatine Chapel

Video in Italian | One of the most secret premises of Pitti Palace: the kitchen built in the 16th century

The Grand-Ducal Kitchen of Pitti Palace

A young maiden chained to a rock patiently waiting for the water to set her free

The Allegory of Patience by Giorgio Vasari

The renowned portrait by Caravaggio has been moved to the Iliad Room in the Palatine Gallery of Pitti Palace

The new place of the Knight of Malta by Caravaggio

The video of the exhibition dedicated to clocks at Pitti Palace

Real Time and the Time of Reality

The words of the Greek writer to describe the artwork preserved in Pitti Palace

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

Palatine Gallery

<p>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</p>

The Three Fates by Salviati and Hesiod's Theogony

The work by the Flemish master told through Homer's words

Ulysses on the Island of the Phaeacians by Pieter Paul Rubens

The Newsletter of the Uffizi Galleries

The secrets of Pitti Palace. Wonders, trivia and beauties of the sumptuous palace inhabited by three dynasties: Medici, Habsburg-Lorraine and Savoy

Pitti Palace Unveiled

The secrets of Pitti Palace. Wonders, trivia and beauties of the sumptuous palace inhabited by three dynasties: Medici, Habsburg-Lorraine and Savoy

The Newsletter of the Uffizi Galleries