Our architecture assignment is to analyze Palazzo Gondi, a Renaissance palace designed by San Gallo. It's right around the corner from the Palazzo Vecchio. Today our class was given the opportunity to go on a private tour, given by Signora Gondi herself. The building is privately owned and people still live and work there, so they don't open many parts to the public. In the spring, they were only letting people as far as the courtyard on the ground floor! We, on the other hand, were taken to what is essentially the penthouse apartment. She took us to the first terrace of the apartment and we were blown away by the view. When she saw how excited we got she insisted we see the one with the better view. That wasn't good enough apparently, because she took us to the third terrace which had the BEST view I have seen in the city so far.
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| The outside of the Palazzo Gondi, don't let its simplicity fool you! |
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The courtyard. On the left and right are my architecture teachers. In the middle is Signora Gondi. The only word she knew in english was "clothes"...not suprising. She was very stylish!
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Some beautiful ceiling decoration.
These are both views from the second terrace we visited. I thought this little window was so interesing because it was so clearly meant to frame Brunelleschi's dome. If you moved a little to the left, it would frame the tower of the Bargello instead. In the image on the left, the green dome belongs to a synogogue. I walked by there on wednesday, and they have a Jewish restaurant! I was disappointed when I found out that it was vegetarian...no corned beef for me I guess.
One of my roomates, Catherine, and I on the third terrace!
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