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The Palazzo Bianco (number 11) makes a handsome setting for Genoa’s most important art collection, mostly the work of Genoese painters: Cambiaso, Strozzi, and Magnasco, as well as works by Pontormo and Palma il Vecchio, and the Flemish school — Rubens, Gérard David, and Van Dyck.
In a piazza that is an open-air sculpture gallery, more statuary graces the orator’s platform along the Palazzo Vecchio’s sober façade.
In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).
Designed in the late 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo) but with a neo-Gothic façade added in 1863, the Franciscan church of Santa Croce (east of the Uffizi) has an important series of Giotto frescoes.
Cross the Ponte Vecchio to the sprawling Pitti Palace (Palazzo Pitti), its dauntingly heavy and graceless façade belying the ornate and colorful interior.