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Boboli Garden

The garden was originally purchased in 1550 by Eleonora de Toledo, wife of Cosme I de Médicis, from the Pitti family. The design of the garden is by Niccolò Pericoli, known as "il Tribolo." Upon his death, the direction of the work was held by Davide Fortini and later, between 1554 and 1561, by Giorgio Vasari. Ammannati also collaborated in its realization between 1560 and 1583 with the design the courtyard that took his name. The large space called the Amphitheater, semi-elliptical in shape, with which the two wings of Ammannati's courtyard harmonize, was built thanks to the large stone quarry at the foot of Belvedere Hill. By means of this architectural conception, the Pitti Palace and the Bóboli garden merged into a harmonious whole. Later, in 1574, Francis I hired Bernardo Buontalenti as architect, who created the Great Grotto.

Venus

Jean De Boulogne Detto Giambologna @ Piazzale di Bacco

Peasant with spade

Valerio Cioli @ Prato delle colonne

Woman washing a child's hair

Valerio Cioli @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Neptune

Lorenzi Stoldo @ La Via Maestra

Monkey fountain

Niccolò Tribolo @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Dwarf Peter Barbino

Valerio Cioli @ Fontana del Carciofo

Sitting dogs

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Vasca dell’isola

The Grotta Grande, or of Buontalenti

Bernardo Buontalenti @ Piazzale di Bacco

Allegory of the Ganges River

Jean De Boulogne Detto Giambologna

Prudence

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Flora

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Love that smashes a heart with a hammer

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Villain with barrel

Bandinelli Bartolomeo Detto Baccio Bandinelli @ Vasca dell’isola

Female figure

Valerio Cioli (scuola) @ Vasca dell’isola

Fall

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Summer

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Noble coat of arms of the Medici and Toledo families

Francesco Di Jacopo Petruzzi @ Grotta di Madama

Aesculapius and Hippolytus

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Sitting lion

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Il Viottolone

Dwarf Morgant

Valerio Cioli @ Piazzale di Bacco

Menelagro

@ Palazzina meridiana

Star or compass rose

@ Il Viottolone

Venus sitting

@ Prato delle colonne

Andromeda

@ Il Viottolone

Best wishes

@ Il Viottolone

Bagpipe player

@ Limonaia

Shepherd playing the bagpipe

@ Limonaia

Seated male figure

@ Ingresso Annalena

Pegasus

Aristodemo Costoli @ Palazzina meridiana

Game of Owl

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli @ Prato delle Colonne

Peasant with basin

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Triton

Francis Harwood @ Vasca dell’isola

Venus and Adonis

Bartolomeo Rossi @ Prato delle colonne

Volcano

Fancelli Chiarissimo @ Prato delle colonne

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Porta romana

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Porta romana

Harpy

Francis Harwood @ Vasca dell’isola

Peasant woman with dogs

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Game of Pentolaccia

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli @ Vasca dell’isola

Love that opens a heart with a key

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Game of Saccomazzone

Romolo Del Tadda @ Il Viottolone

Putto above a swan

Andrea Di Michelangelo Ferrucci @ Fontana del Carciofo

Hunter

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Duelist

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Putto

Domenico Pieratti @ Fontana del Carciofo

Putto

Palma Felice @ Fontana del Carciofo

Duelist

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Game of Owl

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli @ Prato delle colonne

Putto above a swan

Andrea Di Michelangelo Ferrucci (attribuito) @ Fontana del Carciofo

Putto

Fabrizio Farina @ Fontana del Carciofo

Hunter with two beagles

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

David with the head of Goliath

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Apollo

Baccio Bandinelli @ Piazzale di Bacco

Ceres

Baccio Bandinelli @ Piazzale di Bacco

Abundance

Bernardino Detto Il Poccetti (e aiuti) @ La Via Maestra

Ganymede

Battista Lorenzi @ Kaffeehaus

Jupiter

Giambologna (bottega) @ Il Viottolone

Adam and Eve

Michelangelo Naccherino @ Ingresso Annalena

Perseus slays the dragon

Giambologna (bottega) @ Porta Romana

Jupiter

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Jupiter

Baccio Bandinelli (e aiuti) @ Costa san Giorgio

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Porta romana

Shepherd with bagpipes

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Vasca dell’isola

Bacchus

@ Vasca dell’isola

Marsia

@ Anfiteatro

Shell

@ Fontana del Carciofo

Shell

@ Fontana del Carciofo

Satyr with dolphin

@ Fontana del Carciofo

Nymph with fish

@ Fontana del Carciofo

Obelisk

@ Anfiteatro

Bathtub

@ Anfiteatro

Amphitheater

@ Anfiteatro

Demeter or Ceres

@ La Via Maestra

Mysterious character

@ La Via Maestra

Roman Consul

@ La Via Maestra

Column

@ Prato dell’Uccellare

Tindaro cracked

Igor Mitoraj @ Prato dell’Uccellare

Knight's Mansion

@ Giardino del Cavaliere

Female figure with parchment

@ Giardino del Cavaliere

Female figure with book

@ Giardino del Cavaliere

Aristogiton

@ Il Viottolone

Apollo

@ Il Viottolone

Female figure reminiscent of the Roman matron

@ Il Viottolone

Bird fountain

@ Il Viottolone

Woman of mystery

@ Il Viottolone

Juno

@ Il Viottolone

Dionysius or Bacchus

@ Il Viottolone

Andromeda freed

Fancelli Chiarissimo @ Il Viottolone

The priest

@ Il Viottolone

The consul

@ Il Viottolone

Secret of the sky

Kan Yasuda, 1997 @ Il Viottolone

Pico d'ausonia

@ Il Viottolone

Aesculapius

@ Il Viottolone

Nymph

@ Il Viottolone

Secrecy

@ Il Viottolone

Island Basin

Alfonso e Giulio Parigi @ Vasca dell’isola

Meadow of Columns

@ Prato delle colonne

Grape harvest fountain

Valerio e Giovan Simole Cioli @ Prato delle colonne

Lemon House

@ Limonaia

Artichoke Fountain

Francesco Susini e Francesco del Tadda @ Fontana del Carciofo

Sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

Pool in front of sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

Kaffeehaus

@ Kaffeehaus

Madam's Cave

Davide Fortini @ Grotta di Madama

Dachi prisoners

@ Piazzale di Bacco

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