Palatine Gallery Ticket Reservation
Palatina Gallery at Palazzo Pitti
Cumulative ticket - This tickets also includes entrance to Modern Art Gallery, the Grandukes' Treasure (also known as Silver Museum and Fashion and Museum of Costume and Fashion.
Address: Piazza Pitti - Firenze
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 8,15 am to 6,50 pm. Last entrance time 5,30 pm.
Closing: Mondays, 1st January, 1st May and Christmas day.
Entrance to the Palatine Gallery is allowed every 15 minutes.
The fisrt Sunday of each month, entrance is free but tickets cannot be reserved in advance.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Palatine Gallery: located in the winter apartments of the Medici on the first floor of the Pitti Palace, the Galleria Palatina is a extraordinary example of a collection of paintings displayed according to the taste of great collectors of the past.
Masterpieces of famous artists of the Renaissance and of the Baroque period, as Raffaello, Tiziano, Rubens, Van Dijk, hang from the walls according to illogical aesthetic principles: the paintings create an overwhelming and magnificent effect completed by the luxurious furnishing. In the rooms overlooking the square, destined to official ceremonies, the fresco and stucco decoration of the ceilings, created by the great baroque artist Pietro da Cortona, recalls the splendour of the Medici court during the Seicento.
Modern art Gallery: the collection of the Museum, founded after the First World War, shows the development of Italian art between 1745 and 1945. The first rooms house great masterpieces of the Neoclassical period and of its great sculptor Antonio Canova, followed by important expressions of the Romantic age of the Ottocento, the paintings by Hayez and Bezzuoli. The heart of the Gallery displays the collection of small picture, masterpieces by the Macchiaioli, Fattori, Lega, Borrani the revolutionary young artists who used to gather in Florence around the mid 19th century. The turn of the century is marked by members of new movements, the Post Macchiaioli Gioli and Ferroni, the Italian pointillists Nomellini and Previati, the Symbolist Kienerk, up to the artworks displayed at the ‘Primaverile’ in 1922: this important exhibit showed the trend of Florentine art of the beginning of the Novecento, looking back at the examples of great Italian art of the past.
