Pitti Palace - Table of Contents ................................. Architecture Around the World
Palace
interior samplings
- Pitti
Palace /Palazzo Pitti
(Pitti: pronounced pee tee)
Florence,
Italy
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February 2020 photos
| Architecture |
 Arabesques ... Three details below:    |
 Coffered barrel ceiling ... Detail below:  Coffers: Leaf-and-dart molding ... Egg-and-dart molding ... Rosettes |
 Gothic pointed arch ... Decorated spandrels |
 Baroque style ... Detail below:  |
 Baroque style ... Five details below:  ----- PAINTINGS -----  Some paintings by Raphael detailed below:  Raphael/ Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino "Ritratto Di Tommaso Inghirami Detto Fedra" C. 1510 Renaissance style  Raphael/ Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino "Madonna Della Seggiola" 1514 Far right: John the Baptist ... Renaissance style  Raphael/ Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino "Ritratto del Cardinal Dovizi da Bibbiena" 1516 Renaissance style  Raphael/ Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino "Madonna Detta Del Granduca" Renaissance style |
  Renaissance style ... Two details below:  "St. Francis Receives the Stigmata" - Detail #1 Seraph with 6 wings  "St. Francis Receives the Stigmata" - Detail #2 |
  Renaissance style ... Three details below:  "Madonna and Child" - Detail #1 St. Francis of Assisi with two stigmata  "Madonna and Child" - Detail #2  "Madonna and Child" - Detail #3 St. John the Baptist depicted with a halo, cross and camel hair shirt ... St. Mary Magdalen |
  Giotto |
  Filippo Lippi ... Renaissance style ... Two details below:  "Adoration of the Christ Child" - Detail #1 God the Father depicted as a pair of hands .. The Holy Spirit depicted as a dove  "Adoration of the Christ Child" - Detail #2 Jesus ... St. Romuald |
  Renaissance style  "Saint Catherine of Alexandria" - Detail Broken circular torture rack |
   Leonardo Da Vinci ... Renaissance style ,,, Two details below:  "Annunciation" - Detail #1 Annunciation ... Archangel Gabriel  "Annunciation" - Detail #2 Virgin Mary |
   Michelangelo ... Renaissance style ... Detail below:  "Holy Family with the Young St. John the Baptist" - Detail |
 Titan/Titiano Venus of Urbino/Recling Venus 1534(?) Italian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. |
   Renaissance style ... Five details below:  "The Deposition" - Detail #1  "The Deposition" - Detail #2  "The Deposition" - Detail #3 Mary, the Mother of Jesus  "The Deposition" - Detail #4  "The Deposition" - Detail #5 |
  Caravaggio ... Medusa |
| FURNITURE |
  Renaissance style ... Four details below, from the top and left to right:    Note Renaissance perspective ... Intarsia  |
 Empire style swan table ... Detail below:  Note use of bird feathers in chair below: |
 Empire: Egyptian Revival armchair ... Two details below:  Gilded wood ... Eagle wing on arm ... Scrolling acanthus leaves on arm support  Acanthus leaves on arm support ... Fluted seat rail ... Acanthus leaves on top of leg ... Fluted leg ... Acanthus leaves at base of leg ... Flattened ball foot ... Note similar legs in chair below: |
 Empire: Egyptian Revival table ... Three details below:  Frieze   |
 Neoclassical style ... Three details below:  Table top  Applied ribbons supporting foliated festoon above Ionic columns ... Detail below:   |
 Neoclassical style ... Two details below:   |
 Sconce ... Detail below:  Phoenix |