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The Palazzo Pitti (Italian: [paˈlattso ˈpitti]), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno , a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio .
The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via the Uffizi Galleries and the Ponte Vecchio. It’s now open to the public ...
The Vasari Corridor (Italian: Corridoio Vasariano) is an elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, central Italy, connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. Beginning on the south side of the Palazzo Vecchio, it joins the Uffizi Gallery and leaves on its south side, crossing the Lungarno degli Archibusieri, then following the north ...
The Museum of Fashion and Costume (the Costume Gallery) is one of the museums housed in the Pitti Palace in Florence. [1] It is housed at the Palazzina della Meridiana, a pavilion south of the main palace; it is accessible from the Boboli Gardens. [2] It was founded in 1983.
Boboli Gardens Amphitheatre, viewed from the Palazzo Pitti Bathing Venus by Giambologna as seen in the third chamber of the Buontalenti Grotto. The Gardens, directly behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, are some of the first and most familiar formal 16th-century Italian gardens.
Works in the Palatine Gallery at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy include: Raphael, Madonna of the Grand Duke; Raphael, The Madonna of the Chair; Raphael, Portrait of Pope Leo X and two Cardinals; Raphael, companion portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddelena Doni, for whom Michelangelo's Doni Tondo was commissioned.
Palazzo Pitti (left) and the amphiteather of the Boboli Gardens with the obelisk. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1965. View of obelisk from palace. The granite from which the obelisk is carved comes from Aswan and the inscriptions are dedicated to Atum, the deity of the city of Heliopolis.
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