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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

Peasant with spade

Valerio Cioli

Woman washing a child's hair

Valerio Cioli

Neptune

Lorenzi Stoldo @ La Via Maestra

Monkey fountain

Niccolò Tribolo @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Dwarf Peter Barbino

Valerio Cioli

Sitting dogs

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda

The Grotta Grande, or of Buontalenti

Bernardo Buontalenti @ Piazzale di Bacco

Allegory of the Ganges River

Jean De Boulogne Detto Giambologna @ La Via Maestra

Prudence

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Flora

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Love that smashes a heart with a hammer

Domenico Pieratti

Villain with barrel

Bandinelli Bartolomeo Detto Baccio Bandinelli

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

Aesculapius and Hippolytus

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Il Viottolone

Sitting lion

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda @ Il Viottolone

Dwarf Morgant

Valerio Cioli

Menelagro

@ Palazzina meridiana

Star or compass rose

@ Il Viottolone

Venus sitting

@ Prato delle colonne

Hercules

Andromeda

@ Il Viottolone

Hercules

Best wishes

Bagpipe player

Shepherd playing the bagpipe

Seated male figure

Putto with dolphin

Cosimo Salvestrini

Saturn

Gherardo Silvani

Pegasus

Aristodemo Costoli

Game of Owl

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli

Peasant with basin

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Turkish hunter

Domenico Pieratti

Triton

Francis Harwood @ Vasca dell’isola

Venus and Adonis

Bartolomeo Rossi

Volcano

Fancelli Chiarissimo @ Prato delle colonne

Putto

Domenico Pieratti

Putto

Antonio Susini

Putto

Bartolomeo Rossi

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda

Harpy

Francis Harwood @ Vasca dell’isola

Peasant woman with dogs

Domenico Pieratti

Game of Pentolaccia

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli

Love that opens a heart with a key

Domenico Pieratti

Game of Saccomazzone

Romolo Del Tadda @ Il Viottolone

Putto above a swan

Andrea Di Michelangelo Ferrucci

Hunter

Domenico Pieratti

Winter

Raffaello Curradi (attribuito)

Duelist

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Putto

Domenico Pieratti

Putto

Palma Felice

Duelist

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

Game of Owl

Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli

Putto above a swan

Andrea Di Michelangelo Ferrucci (attribuito)

Putto

Fabrizio Farina

Hunter with two beagles

Domenico Pieratti @ Vasca dell’isola

David with the head of Goliath

Domenico Pieratti

Apollo

Baccio Bandinelli

Ceres

Baccio Bandinelli @ Piazzale di Bacco

Abundance

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

Ganymede

Battista Lorenzi

Jupiter

Giambologna (bottega)

Adam and Eve

Michelangelo Naccherino @ Grotta di Adamo e Eva

Perseus slays the dragon

Giambologna (bottega)

Jupiter

Giovan Battista Caccini @ Giardino del Cavaliere

Jupiter

Baccio Bandinelli (e aiuti)

Sphinx

Giovanni Battista Giovannozzi

Sphinx

Giovanni Battista Giovannozzi

Male figure

Ferrucci Romolo Detto Romolo Del Tadda

Shepherd with bagpipes

Giovan Battista Caccini

Bacchus

@ Vasca dell’isola

Marsia

Shell

Satyr with dolphin

Nymph with fish

Obelisk

@ La Via Maestra

Bathtub

@ La Via Maestra

Amphitheater

@ La Via Maestra

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

Meadow of the Birding

@ 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

Columns with capricorns

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Work title

@ Vasca dell’isola

Meadow of Columns

@ Prato delle colonne

Grape harvest fountain

Valerio e Giovan Simole Cioli @ Prato delle colonne

Lemon House

@ Prato delle colonne

Work title

@ Prato delle colonne

Fountain

@ Ingresso

Entrance statue on the right

@ Ingresso

Sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

Roman consul statue

@ Palazzina meridiana

Pool in front of sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

Statue next to the Pegasus

@ Palazzina meridiana

Fountain with Bacchus near the sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

State to Roman emperor in front of sundial building

@ Palazzina meridiana

Status to woman with Goliath head in hand

@ Palazzina meridiana

Kaffeehaus

@ Ingresso

Madam's Cave

Davide Fortini

Dachi prisoners

@ Piazzale di Bacco

Statue of woman with broken arms and Triton

@ Prato dell’Uccellare

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