About the museum
The story of the Galleria Palatina
The Palatine Gallery fills the grand apartments of the Palazzo Pitti, the former residence of the Medici grand dukes in Florence, across the Ponte Vecchio from the Uffizi. It opened to the public in the 1830s.
Its paintings are still hung in the crowded, princely style of the palace, with a superb group of Raphael and Titian.
The collection
The Palatine Gallery shows around 500 paintings from the Medici and Lorraine grand dukes' collections, hung frame to frame as in a seventeenth-century princely picture gallery.
Raphael is the star, with the Madonna della Seggiola, La Velata and the Madonna del Granduca, and Titian, Rubens, Andrea del Sarto and Caravaggio's Sleeping Cupid are also shown.
At ArtLogia you can order 93 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 37 artists led by Andrea del Sarto, Raphael and Titian.
- paintings to order
- 93
- artists
- 37
- art movements
- 6
- years covered
- 1452–1745
The building
The Palazzo Pitti was begun in the 1450s for the banker Luca Pitti and bought by the Medici in 1550. Pietro da Cortona frescoed the ceilings of the Planet Rooms, which give the gallery its splendour.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
After the gallery, climb into the Boboli Gardens behind the palace for views over Florence.
