The Palatine Gallery houses one of the most important collections in Italy of works of the 16th and 17th centuries. It has an uncommon charm given by the arrangement of the paintings, placed with their rich frames in rooms finely decorated with stucco in the style of seventeenth-century picture galleries: like the ancient picture galleries, of which it is the most important historical example in Italy, it places the paintings according to a decorative and aesthetic criterion and not scientific.
It was Grand Duke Leopold in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who decided to transfer part of the very rich Medici collections from the Uffizi to Palazzo Pitti for reasons of space.
Today it is the first museum in Florence for the number of works on display. It boasts works by Pontormo, Filippo Lippi, Raffaello (Madonna della Seggiola, La Velata), Tiziano (Maddalena Penitente) and Andrea del Sarto, works by Florentine masters of the 16th and 17th centuries and works by Caravaggio, Rubens (The Consequences of War), Van Dyck, Salvator Rosa.
