Example sentences for: pitti

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  • The Pitti’s next-most visited gallery, the Silverware Museum (Museo degli Argenti), occupies 16 sumptuously decorated rooms to offset the Medici family’s invaluable treasures — gold, silver, jewels, beautiful 16th- and 17th-century amber and ivory, crystal, porcelain, and Baroque furniture.

  • Titian has a superbly sensual Venus of Urbino (1538), less Greek goddess than the prince’s mistress she probably was, and an equally disturbing Flora (1515; more works by Raphael and Titian can be found in the Palazzo Pitti).

  • The Medici family lived here until moving to the Palazzo Vecchio and eventually the Palazzo Pitti.

  • Its seven museums and galleries (following varying and erratic schedules with the exception of the largest and most reliable, the Pitti Gallery) take you into the rich world of the Medici, much as they left it.

  • Directly behind the palace, the Amphitheatre, shaped like a Roman circus and with lovely views of the Palazzo Pitti and the city beyond, was the scene of the Medici’s most extravagant fêtes and staged performances.


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