Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Art of the Pitti Palace: With a Short History of the Building of the Palace, and Its Owners, and an Appreciation of Its Treasures
The setting for the pictures is ?orid, and might be trying if the pictures themselves were not Of such absorbing interest that the visitor does not have much time to consider the surroundings. The style of interior decoration in the Pitti Palace is Of an Objectionable late-renaissance type, gilded bossy ceilings ornamented with indifferent frescoes, and exhibiting what Browning calls stucco twiddlings everywhere. The rooms are named in romantic taste after various persons and attributes Of classic times. Henry James speaks Of these apartments as those dusky drawing-rooms Of the Palazzo Pitti.
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