Florence Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

We visited the old Medici palace way back in 2011 (https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/06/medici-tombs-palazzo-medici-riccardi.html), and I remember sneaking just one photo from its artistic masterpiece, Benozzo Gozzoli's Magi Chapel, completed in 1459, a multi-wall procession of the Three Kings, well, actually, prominent Florentines/Medici allies, dressed up as the imagined retinue of the Three. It is magnificently well-preserved, detailed, and brilliant, but in 2011, the "NO FOTOS!" policy was in full force. Not so now. Stay as long as you like, take as many pix as you want...I got carried away, of course...

Medici crest...they were apothecaries before they invented banking

Elevation, sort of, showing the rusticated bottom two floors

Interior courtyard, very Rennaissancy

Now in the Magi Chapel...

View of "main" wall; the guy on the white horse, right, is said
by some to be a young Lorenzo the Magnificent; others say he
was way too young to be so pictured and is in the procession
to the left...

Another wall

It's an irregularly-shaped room and has more
than the usual 4 walls

Related, perhaps, to the leopard we did not see in Africa

Lorenzo?

Among the salons; after Vicki tore me away from the little chapel

In the 2011 post I had mis-identified this as a
Botticelli; it is rather a wonderful Filippo Lippi;
the Bambino's pose particularly striking

Hall of mirrors

Sort of

Usual ceiling treatment, dating from the Riccardis, who owned
the place after the Medicis moved out

We are thinking of something like this for Le Duc

In addition to housing the museums, the large old building also
houses provincial government (county) offices; here, the
provincial council chambers, decorated with beautiful 16th
century Florentine tapestries depicting the four seasons

In the basement, a museum of Roman busts, a bit of which is
pictured here