Information and ticket booking for the Palatine Gallery and the Modern Art Gallery, Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy
On this page you can order a ticket (see further down the page) that allows entrance to the Palatine Gallery and the Modern Art Gallery. We also sell another ticket that gives entrance to the 'other' galleries of the Pitti, as well as the Boboli gardens.
The Pitti Palace (Palazzo Pitti), located just south of the river Arno (and the Pontevecchio) in Florence, is today the largest museum complex in the city, home to a wide range of distinct galleries and exhibitions. The building's core dates from the 1450's, and the largely Renaissance building was originally the town home of Luca Pitti, a clearly enormously wealthy banker. Roughly 100 years later it was purchased by, and became home to the Medici rulers, and their even greater wealth saw an accumulation of fine art and treasures; the building and contents were gifted to the Italian people in 1919.
The two principle galleries today are the Palatine and the Gallery of Modern Art, and this combined ticket gives you access to both collections. The Palatine gallery is, in essence, a private Medici (and their successors') collection, and is today displayed as such - hung according to taste, not chronology, with approximately 500 largely Renaissance paintings by such masters as Raphael, Titian, Correggio and Rubens.
The Modern Art Gallery is perhaps not ideally named - no amorphous sculptures, no 'installations', no shock-of-the-new here. This is because, in Italian, 'modern art' dates from prior to the 2nd World War - what comes after tends to be called 'contemporary'. What there is is a good collection of pieces dating from 1700 to early 1900; of particular note are works by members of the Macchiaioli movement, a school of pioneering 19th-century Tuscan painters, prime movers in the impressionist movement.
The galleries are open all year round from 08.15AM until 06.50PM (closed on Mondays). As with many venues in Italy, there are often special exhibitions running, and the ticket price will reflect this. For 2010 the Palatine Gallery (along with the Uffizi) is host to 'Caravaggio e Caravaggeschi a Firenze', a collection of over 100 works by, and after, the artist. He may well have never set foot in Florence, but Caravaggio's name is writ large in the city as it holds the biggest collection of his work outside Rome. The exhibition runs from the 22nd of May until the 17th of October 2010. There are reduced price tickets available for EU citizens under the age of 18 or over the age of 65, as well as for EU citizens between the ages of 18 and 25.
Please click on the calendar (the small square icon) below to select a date, then click the 'Click to continue with booking>>' button to begin the booking procedure.
(Do remember that dates are in European (day-month-year) format and that the galleries are closed on Mondays.)
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1. Click on the calendar icon to the left to choose a date. 2. Click button to continue. |
HOW YOU'LL GET YOUR TICKETS:
To reserve your tickets for the Palatine and Modern Art galleries at the Pitti Palace, just fill out the booking form, supply us with credit card details, and we'll do the rest. There will be no charge whatsoever until we confirm your reservation. We'll then point you to our secure page, where you can print out your entry voucher. Print it out, take it with you and present it at the pre-arranged meeting point. As simple as that!
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