Description
The Treasury of the Grand Dukes, until 2015 the Museo degli Argenti (Silver Museum), gathers the precious objects of the Medici and the House of Lorraine in the north wing of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. There is gold, cameos, rock crystal, ivory and pietra dura: the private luxury of a court.
On the ground floor are the vases of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Roman, Sasanian and Venetian, with fine silver mounts added in the 15th century. The rooms of the grand duke's summer apartments are covered in 17th-century frescoes by Giovanni da San Giovanni, Colonna and Mitelli, and house the Stipo d'Alemagna, a cabinet of ebony and pietra dura.
Among the curiosities are a magnetic compass given by Tsar Peter the Great to Cosimo III and a turned ivory vase from 1582, the oldest known piece of this craft. On the mezzanine, jewelry, silverware and the German gold pieces that Ferdinand III brought back from exile.
On the ground floor are the vases of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Roman, Sasanian and Venetian, with fine silver mounts added in the 15th century. The rooms of the grand duke's summer apartments are covered in 17th-century frescoes by Giovanni da San Giovanni, Colonna and Mitelli, and house the Stipo d'Alemagna, a cabinet of ebony and pietra dura.
Among the curiosities are a magnetic compass given by Tsar Peter the Great to Cosimo III and a turned ivory vase from 1582, the oldest known piece of this craft. On the mezzanine, jewelry, silverware and the German gold pieces that Ferdinand III brought back from exile.