Fresco of the Throne room by Pietro da Cortona, 1646
Sala di Giove (Jupiter Room)
Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti
Florence, May 2016
“The next room, the Jupiter room, has paintings by Rubens, Andrea del Sarto, Bronzino, Perugino and the Flemish Sustermans, official painter at the Medici court. Susterman’s portrait of Galileo Galilei, the official mathematician at the Medici Grand Ducal court dedicated all of his astronomical discoveries to the Medici.” (The Palatine Gallery at the Pitti Palace, Visit Florence)
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