Example sentences for: pitti

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  • After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.

  • 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.

  • Across the tops of these small former workshops, Vasari provided a covered corridor for Duke Cosimo to keep out of the rain when crossing from his Pitti Palace to the Uffizi.

  • 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.

  • 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).


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