Where can you see Pietro da Cortona in Florence?

At the Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery: The Planetary Rooms and The Four Ages of Man. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Pietro da Cortona's most famous work in Florence?

The Planetary Rooms, of 1641 to 1647, at the Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery. Five rooms, of Venus, Apollo, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in which the gods lead a young prince from youth to old age. Fresco, white stucco and gold run together so that you cannot tell where one ends.

When and where was Pietro da Cortona born?

On 1 November 1596, at Cortona, Italy. Pietro da Cortona died on 16 May 1669, at Rome, Italy, aged about 73.

What is Pietro da Cortona known for?

Painted the ceilings of the Planetary Rooms between 1641 and 1647. The rooms now hold the Palatine Gallery, so the Raphaels hang under his frescoes. Pietro da Cortona was an Italian painter, of the Baroque.

Painter, 1596 to 1669

Pietro da Cortona

The Grand Duke Ferdinando II kept Pietro da Cortona in Florence for most of the 1640s to paint the state rooms of his palace. They were a model for the state rooms of Versailles.

Born: 1596, Cortona, Italy
Died: 1669, Rome, Italy
Movement: Baroque
In Florence: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Pietro da Cortona in Florence

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery2 works

The Planetary Rooms
1641 to 1647
Five rooms, of Venus, Apollo, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in which the gods lead a young prince from youth to old age. Fresco, white stucco and gold run together so that you cannot tell where one ends.
The Four Ages of Man
1637 to 1641
Four scenes on the walls of the Sala della Stufa, a small room once heated by a stove: the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron.

The life of Pietro da Cortona

Pietro Berrettini was born at Cortona in Tuscany in 1596 and came to Rome as a young man. The Barberini family, whose pope Urban VIII reigned from 1623, made him their painter.

He was an architect as well, and with Bernini and Borromini one of the three who gave Rome its Baroque face. He died there in 1669.

What to know

Painted the ceilings of the Planetary Rooms between 1641 and 1647
The rooms now hold the Palatine Gallery, so the Raphaels hang under his frescoes

Born: 1 November 1596, Cortona, Italy
Died: 16 May 1669, Rome, Italy