GREAT FLORENCE WEBSITES -- PART 8

PALAZZO MEDICI RICCARDI -- FIRENZE

In the words of its operators:

Medici Riccardi Palace is one the most important monuments in Florence, a prototype of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. 

Medici Riccardi Palace hosts temporary exhibitions and experimental virtual environment for museums and galleries.

As an added bonus, courtesy of PBS's outstanding Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance series, here is a reading list of excellent books about Florence, the Medici and the Renaissance period:

• April Blood - Florence and the Plot against the Medici - Lauro Martines
• Brunelleschi's Dome - Ross King
• Catherine de'Medici - Leonie Frieda
• Cosimo de'Medici and the Florentine Renaissance - Dale Kent
• Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art - Janet Cox Rearick
• Florence and the Medici - J.R Hale
• Florentine politics 1502 - 1515 - Humfrey Butters
• Galileo - Courtier - Mario Biagioli
• Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
• Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King
• Patronage - Art and Society in Renaissance Italy - F.W. Kent
• The French wars of Religion - R. J. Knecht
• The Last of the Medici - Harold Acton
• The Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari
• The Pope's Elephant - Silvio Bedini
• The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Renaissance Bazaar - Jerry Brotton
• The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank - Raymond de Roover
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici - Christopher Hibbert
• The Rise of the Medici - Faction in Florence 1426-1434 - Dale Kent

 http://www.palazzo-medici.it