Luca Giordano Hall
Commissioned in 1444 by Cosimo the Elder, the residence of the Medici family constitutes a model of civil architecture in the Renaissance. Its design was entrusted to the architect Michelozzo, to the detriment of the project by his colleague Filippo Brunelleschi, judged by Cosimo as being “too sumptuous and magnificent” and “more likely to stir up envy him among his fellow citizens than to confer grandeur or adornment on the city, or bring comfort to himself” (G. Vasari, 1568).To this period belongs the construction of the so-called “Gallery”, with its beautifully decorated ceiling by the maximum Baroque painter, Luca Giordano (1682-1685), with a fresco representing the Apotheosis of the Medicis.