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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...
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    the Medici duke's residence was moved across the Arno River to the Palazzo Pitti. In 1299, the commune and people of Florence decided to build a palace...
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    numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics...
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    reside at the Palazzo Pitti until finally in 1549 failing fortunes compelled Pitti's descendant Buonaccorso Pitti to sell the palazzo to the Grand Duchess...
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    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...
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    Ovid's Four Ages of Man in the small Sala della Stufa, a room in the Palazzo Pitti. The first two frescoes represented the "ages" of gold and silver. In...
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    dying in the city of Cologne, in the Holy Roman Empire. Born at the Palazzo Pitti of Florence, Italy on 26 April 1575, Maria was the sixth daughter of...
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    made possible the invention of the piano. Ferdinando was born in the Palazzo Pitti to Cosimo III de' Medici and his wife Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, a...
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    police authority). In order to connect the Palazzo Vecchio (Florence's town hall) with the Palazzo Pitti, in 1565 Cosimo I de' Medici had Giorgio Vasari...
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    Medicis' large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medici villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's...
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    The opera was first performed in Florence on 6 October 1600 at the Palazzo Pitti with Peri himself singing the role of Orfeo. Euridice was created for...
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    Boboli Gardens (category Palazzo Pitti)
    June 2020. "Boboli Gardens in Florence: Visit the Boboli Garden Behind Palazzo Pitti in Florence". Hibbert, Christopher (1979). The Rise and Fall of the...
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    science, and contains well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Palazzo Pitti. Tuscany is also known for its wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile...
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    Alfonso and 13-year-old Lucrezia were married in the chapel in the Palazzo Pitti (or according to another version in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella)...
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    Ezekiel's vision of God in majesty. It is housed in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, central Italy. The work is remembered by Renaissance art...
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    The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence...
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    Psyche Abandoned (sculpture) (category Collection of the Palazzo Pitti)
    Psyche Abandoned is an 1819 white marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tenerani (1789-1869). There are several replicas of the work, but the...
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    Florence: Palazzo Medici Riccardi (1444–1540, then used by less important members of the family until 1659) Palazzo Vecchio (1540 - c.1560) Palazzo Pitti (1550–1738)...
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    the most celebrated of the five dwarves of the Medici court at the Palazzo Pitti. He is immortalized by a statue from 1560 by Valerio Cioli in the Boboli...
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    hygrometers, barometers, thermometers, and telescopes installed in the Palazzo Pitti. In 1657, Leopoldo de' Medici, the Grand Duke's youngest brother, established...
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    repeatedly throughout; he had to be carried unconscious back to the Palazzo Pitti, the royal palace, on a litter. A sprained ankle incurred in July 1729...
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    di giovane donna (1475), of Sandro Botticelli, which is preserved in Palazzo Pitti, although it may equally represent Simonetta Vespucci, Clarice Orsini...
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    I de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine held in the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence in 1589. There is an etching of the event that was part...
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    Sandro Botticelli, dated between 1470 and 1475. It is housed in the Palazzo Pitti of Florence. Variously attributed to different painters, it was eventually...
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  • paintings : Landscape at Castiglioncello, Galleria dell'Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (url) Nicolai Abildgaard (1743–1809), 1 painting : Culmin's...
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    hygrometers, barometers, thermometers and telescopes installed in the Palazzo Pitti. In 1654, influenced by Galileo Galilei, he is reported to have invented...
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    housed at the Palazzo Pitti Collection in Florence, Italy. Although there is documentation on its arrival to its current location, Palazzo Pitti, it is still...
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    Clement VII in 1532. The official residence of the Grand Dukes was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, bought by the Medici in 1549. Margraves reigned in the...
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    his telescopic discoveries, to the grand duke. Cosimo extended the Palazzo Pitti, and he reconstructed the Villa del Poggio Imperiale. In spite of his...
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    containing a severed head. Judith and her Maidservant is displayed in the Palazzo Pitti, in Florence. A further three paintings by Gentileschi, in Naples, Detroit...
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