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Palatina Gallery Guided Tour
Palatina Gallery, Old Bridge, Signoria Square Tour
Join our Palatina Gallery, Old Bridge and Signoria Square guided tour in English with a professional guide. All our tours are led by officially authorized, highly qualified and experienced guides.
Starting from the sumptuous rooms and private apartments richly decorated and furnished in the Palatina gallery, the itinerary proceeds to the Old Bridge and to the discovery of the history of the Old Palace, seat of the political power, and Signoria square center of the social life, built upon the ruins of the Ghibelline homes, of the 13th century.
Tours will last one hour and 30 min. and give you an high quality, entertaining introduction to the masterpieces and their hidden meaning!
Tour details:
- Meeting: 15 minutes before the starting time meet the guide in front of "entrance". The guide will give you entrance tickets!
- Duration: h 1,30
- Language: English
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Inclusions:
- Local guide officially authorized
- Whisper System (included for groups over 10 persons)
Exclusions:
- Entrance fee for Palatina Gallery
- Exhibition fee
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Reduced and free tickets
May purchase Reduced/Half Ticket *:
- European Community citizens between 18 and 25 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
- Italian school teachers
May purchase Free Ticket **:
- Non European Community citizens under 6 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
- European Community citizens under 18 and over 65 years old (valid identity document needed at the entrance)
Service fees and eventual temporary exhibition fees are always due
Palatina Gallery and Royal Apartments Museum:
The Gallery is called “Palatina” because it is located in the “Palazzo” of the ruling family, the imposing Pitti Palace, royal residence of the Medici, of the Lorraine and lastly of the Savoy dynasty. The collection of paintings, arranged in rooms sumptuously decorated with baroque stuccoes and frescoes, is a rare and precious example of a private princely gallery. The monumental royal apartments, joined to the gallery, show furnishings of the time when they were used by the Savoy, Kings of Italy.
History:
In the early 19th C. the Lorraine Grand Dukes decided to display the huge collection of paintings acquired in the 17th and 18th C. by the last Medici members in the representative rooms on the first floor of the palace.
The collection was enlarged thanks to legacies and acquisitions at the time of the Grand Duke Cosimo III and his son Grand Prince Ferdinando, refined collector.
The museum was opened to visitors in 1828, during the reign of Leopoldo II.
Collections:
The Gallery shows the taste of the Medici and of the Lorraine collections, displayed according to principles and decorations of a princely official gallery and including mainly works of the 16th and 17th C.
The Gallery houses the most significant collection of works by Raphael in the world, along with a rich group of Venetian works, such as many masterpieces by Titian.
It displays works by the main Italian and European artists of the 16th and 17th C., such as Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo and Ribera.
 Masterpieces:
Raphael: Madonna of the Grand Duke; Portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi; Portrait of a lady called "The Pregnant"; Madonna of the Canopy; Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami; Portrait of a lady called "The Veiled"; Madonna of the “Impannata” (“Clothed Window”); Madonna of the Chair.
Giorgione, The Three ages of man.
Titian: Concert; Portrait of Tommaso Mosti, Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici; Magdalene; Portrait of a lady called "The Beauty "; Portrait of a gentleman with greyish eyes; Portrait of Pietro Aretino.
Rosso Fiorentino, Dei Altarpiece.
Caravaggio, Sleeping Cupid; Portrait of a Knight of Malta.
Artemisia Gentileschi: Magdalene, Judith.
P.P. Rubens, The Four philosopher; The Three Graces; The Consequences of the war.
A. Van Dyck, Portrait of Cardinal Bentivoglio.
Antonio Canova, Italica Venus.
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