BRONZINO'S
ROOM
Ten
tapestries displayed in rotation with “History of Joseph
Jew” 1546
three of which designed by Jacopo Carrucci aka Pontormo
(1494/1556) and the others by Agnolo di Cosimo Tori aka
Bronzino (1503/72) commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici for the Room of
the Two-Hundreds in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where are the other ten of the
series are
“In these
tapestries the tormented artificiality of Pontormo reaches its peak. The
simplicity of the subject does not raise virtually any concern in the artist,
who has become more and more convoluted and self-effacing. (...) The tapestries
have a figurative pattern compressed in the vertical direction, with no clear
structure or content. It is not surprising that Cosimo and the heads of the Tapestries'
factory would no longer employ Pontormo” (Hermann Voss)
ROOM OF
DRUSUS
SMALL
PASSAGE OF URBAN VIII
OFFICE OF
THE PRESIDENT
ROOM OF THE
TAPESTRIES OF LILLE
Five
tapestries 1715/20 by Guillaume Werniers from
models by David Teniers the Younger (1610/90)
SMALL
NAPOLEONIC LIVING ROOM
PIFFETTI LIBRARY
MUSIC ROOM
ROOM OF
PEACE
ROOM OF
VICTORY
ROOM OF THE
DAMES
Beautiful
frieze “Triumph of Alexander the Great” 1812 by Bertel
Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)
“Admirable work
for the lightness of ornament and for the variety of attitudes in the long
procession inspired by the reliefs of the Parthenon” (Carlo Bertelli, Giuliano
Briganti, Antonio Giuliano)
Chapel
of Pius IX
In the
MANICA LUNGA (Long Wing) with five major paintings:
On the
right “Madonna with Saints” 1603 maybe by Innocenzo
Tacconi (active in Rome 1607/25) and “The Birth of the Virgin” 1643 by
Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona
(1597/1669)
On the
altar “Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria with
Sts. Jerome and Lucy” 1779 by Pompeo Batoni (1708/87)
On the left
“Annunciation” by Carlo Maratta 1673 (1625/1713)
and “Apparition of the
Virgin to St. Lawrence” 1617 by Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647)
Garden
“Fountain
of the organ” 1596 with hydraulic parts by Giovanni Fontana
(1540/1614), brother of Domenico Fontana and expert in hydraulic, with
decorations by Giovanni da Neri for Clement VIII
Aldobrandini (1592/1605)
