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Palatine Gallery (Palazzo Pitti)
Rooms in the huge Pitti Palace in Florence are hung floor to ceiling with paintings in golden frames, as they were when the Medici family and later Grand Dukes of Tuscany lived there. It has the largest collection of Raphael's work outside the Vatican.
History of the museum
The Pitti Palace was begun in the 1400s for a Florentine banker and was bought by the Medici in 1549. Over the next centuries the family and their successors, the Habsburg-Lorraine grand dukes, hung their favorite paintings in the state rooms. The collection was opened to the public in 1828, and the rooms were kept much as they were, with paintings arranged by their look rather than by date or artist.
Top pieces
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Madonna della Seggiola Raphael, 1513 -
La Velata Raphael, 1513 -
Portrait of Leo X Raphael, 1518
In our gallery from here (14)
La velataRaphael · 1513
Madonna del GranducaRaphael · 1506
Madonna della SeggiolaRaphael · 1513
Portrait of Leo XRaphael · 1518
La BellaTitian · 1537
Judith and Her MaidservantArtemisia Gentileschi · 1610
Conversion of the MagdaleneArtemisia Gentileschi · 1620
Lamentation over the Dead ChristPietro Perugino · 1495
San Gallo AnnunciationAndrea del Sarto · 1510
The Disputation on the TrinityAndrea del Sarto · 1517
Saint John the Baptist as a BoyAndrea del Sarto · 1523
Passerini AssumptionAndrea del Sarto · 1526
Portrait of a gentleman in a furPaolo Veronese · 1558
Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia as nunUnknown artist · 1700