The Palatine Gallery houses one of Italy’s most important collections of 16th and 17th century works, with a rare charm given by the arrangement of the paintings, placed with their rich frames in rooms finely decorated with stucco in the style of 17th century paintings: like the ancient paintings, of which it is the most important historical example in Italy, it places the paintings according to a decorative and aesthetic rather than scientific criterion.
It was Grand Duke Leopold who, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, decided to move part of the rich Medici collections of 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 features works by Pontormo, Filippo Lippi, Raffaello (Madonna della Seggiola, La Velata), Titian (Maddalena Penitente) and Andrea del Sarto, works by the 16th and 17th century Florentine masters and works by Caravaggio, Rubens (Le conseguenze della guerra), Van Dyck, Salvator Rosa.
