Major restorations are underway at Palazzo Pitti, where extensive works have begun in the Palatine Gallery and Modern Art Gallery, with an overall cost exceeding one million euro.
In the Palatine Gallery, the work will focus on the rooms of the Volterrano Quarter, the first floor wing of the museum that opens onto the Boboli Gardens. In the seventeenth century, it was intended to house the apartments of Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere and subsequently other family members, eventually becoming an integral part of the new museum. Restoration will also involve the Halls of Ulysses, the Education of Jupiter, and those dedicated to Jupiter, Saturn and the Iliad.
The interventions will be comprehensive, involving the maintenance and recovery of wooden furnishings, such as the sumptuous tables with precious marble tops that decorate all the rooms, dusting the frescoed walls and stuccoes, cleaning antique chandeliers, maintaining paintings, and restoring fabrics that cover the walls of the rooms.
On the second floor, in the Modern Art Gallery, the project includes the restoration of the Salone del Fiorino and the nearby Music Room, where the stuccoes and frescoes will be dusted and reviewed.
The extensive program of works, launched in recent days, will continue until spring 2026. The first rooms affected are the Sala di Berenice and Sala delle Allegorie in the Volterrano Quarter of the Palatine Gallery, where wall coverings have already been removed for vacuuming and subsequent cleaning, while wood restorers are already at work restoring antique decorated tables, doors and windows.
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