Museo Galileo
italiano
Virtual Museum
Room I
The Medici Collections
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Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio

Having victoriously concluded the war with Siena and inaugurated the political-administrative construction of the new state, Cosimo de' Medici (1519-1574) ...

(9 objects)

Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi Gallery

It is to the sensitivity of Francesco I (1541-1587) that we also owe the founding of the Uffizi Gallery, initially used as a place for collecting masterpieces ...

(4 objects)


Pitti Palace

Pitti Palace

Sensitive to the problems of scientific research, Ferdinando II (1610-1670) was the patron of Galileo (1564-1642) and other important scientists. In 1657, ...

(4 objects)