The Pitti Palace is not only one museum. It holds four museums plus the Boboli Gardens.
It has been the home of the Medicis, the Habsburg-Lorrain family and the first King of Italy, who lived here from 1865.
On this tour we will visit the Palatine Gallery, which holds an extraordinary collection of paintings. The collection includes the largest concentration of Raphael paintings in Florence, as well as masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens.
The paintings are all in lavish frames and cover the walls of the rooms entirely. The ceilings are decorated with frescoes by Pietro da Cortona, who also painting the walls in the “Stove Room” with the depiction of “The Four ages of Man”, a theme inspired by Ovid.
After a quick look upstairs to see one of the most beautiful paintings from the 1800s art scene in Florence, we will proceed to the Medici’s sumptuous Summer apartments, today the “Treasure Museum”. Here you will see the walls frescoed on the occasion of a Medici wedding. The paintings show one of the first examples in Florence of the trompe-oeil (trick the eye) perspective.
The tour takes 3 hours.
