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 Pitti Palace
First built as a private home
later
became the official residence of the Medici under Cosimo
1st.1549 and from 1865 (after the unification of Italy)
the royal palace of the Savoy dynasty.
It continued
to be their residence until the end of the Second
World War. Since then it has been used for shows and
exhibitions, now houses eight museums. Palatina gallery
is by far the most famous.
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 The Fornarina
Also known
as La Velata (The Veiled Woman), she probably
represents the beautiful bakeress loved
by Raphael.
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 Ritratto di Pietro
Aretino
By Titian (Tiziano)
in 1545 |
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 The Three Age
of Man
By Giorgione in 1510 |
 Madonna della Seggiola
By
Raphael in 1513 |
Boboli Garden
 Splendor,
space and elegant inventions make the Boboli the most
magnificent of Italian Renaissance gardens, where variety
of plants, hundreds of fountains, groves and terraces,
the admirable grotto of Buontalenti make a walk through
it a constant source of inexhaustible surprises.
Guarded by hundreds
of statues, some grotesque some realistic, art and nature
meet in the spirit of true Mannerism and 17th. century
Baroque.
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