The palace was built in the first half of the 16th century on the basis of a combination of three medieval houses, including the residence of Rinaldo del Albizi. The current appearance of the palace was acquired at the end of the 16th century, when the new owner, Senator Baccio Valori Jr. , curator of the Mediceo Laurenziana library, commissioned a new faç ade design by architect and sculptor Giovanni Battista Cacchini. According to the owner himself, the facade is decorated with 15 bas-reliefs - portraits of prominent scientists and artists of Florence. At the lower level (with captions in plaques under the bas-reliefs) are Accurcio, Pietro Torrigiano Rusticelli, Marcilio Ficino, Donato Acchaiouoli, Pierre Vettori; at the second level - Amerigo Vespucci, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Guicciardini, Marcello Adriani and Vincenzo Borgini; at the third level - Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni Della Casa and Luigi Alamanni. The bust of Cosimo I Medici over the portal was also performed by Giovanni Battista Cacchini.
Looking at the facade, you can easily see the three houses that make up the palace: in the center is the house of Rinaldo degli Albici, on the facade of which are preserved two shields with the family coats of arms of the early XV century; on the right - a house with two windows with an almost destroyed coat of arms, which cannot be identified; on the left - a house with the coat of arms of the Patzi family - a pair of dolphins. The facade was restored in 1936 and 1989-1990. The narrow street does not allow you to photograph the full face of the palace in full.
The building is included in the list of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Arts in 1901 as a national artistic heritage.
Looking at the facade, you can easily see the three houses that make up the palace: in the center is the house of Rinaldo degli Albici, on the facade of which are preserved two shields with the family coats of arms of the early XV century; on the right - a house with two windows with an almost destroyed coat of arms, which cannot be identified; on the left - a house with the coat of arms of the Patzi family - a pair of dolphins. The facade was restored in 1936 and 1989-1990. The narrow street does not allow you to photograph the full face of the palace in full.
The building is included in the list of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Arts in 1901 as a national artistic heritage.
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