mercoledì 18 dicembre 2013

In Florence, unusual museums and palaces ...


Pitti Palace, used as Museums, was the residence of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, Medici, Lorena and 1860-1919 of the Kings of Italy. In the Palace you can visit upon reservation, the Museo degli Argenti, the Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Costume Gallery, the Porcelain Museum. The Silver Museum retains Medici Treasure: cameos, vases of precious stones, rock crystals, the amber, ivory vases and jewelry collection that belonged to the last heir of the Medici family. The Gallery preserves a extraordinary collection of immense value of paintings, statues, vases and other precious; walls and ceilings finely painted and decorated, making it even more scenographic rooms of the gallery. Among the various works by are those of Titian, Raphael, Rubens and Pietro da Cortona. In the Gallery of Modern Art are works of neoclassicism, romanticism and a collection of Macchiaoli. The Costume Gallery retains clothes and accessories from the eighteenth century to the present day and theatrical costume. The Porcelain Museum is located at the Apartment house, said the Knight, on the top of the Boboli Gardens with exposure precisely objects of great value to porcelain. Behind extensive Palazzo Pitti, Boboli Gardens, a green area with statues, grottoes and fountains, you might define an open-air museum in the Museum of Palazzo Pitti same.

 

 

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