Example sentences for: pitti

How can you use “pitti” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 important Pitti Gallery (Galleria Palatina) is the family art collection.


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