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Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy (cc)
Photo: Giovanni Dall'Orto
Palazzo Pitti
The regal Palazzo Pitti was actually commissioned to Brunelleschi by businessman-banker Luca Pitti in the mid-15th century in competition with the splendid palaces of his great rivals, the Medici. Ruined, the family ironically sold the building a century later to the wife of Cosimo I, Elenora di Toledo, who was eager to flee the sobriety of the Palazzo Vecchio, and the Grand-Dukes of Tuscany continued to inhabit and enlarge it for three centuries. With a 200-m/656-ft façade, this is by far the largest palace constructed in the Renaissance and built entirely of gigantic blocks. The work involved in quarrying, transporting and setting them in place is an indication of the pretensions of Luca Pitti and more than befits those of Cosimo I and the Medici who followed.
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