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An exhibition in the White Room of the Palatine Gallery
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In 1678, Cosimo III dei Medici decided to honour Giusto Suttermans, the portraitist who had worked for his family for many years, by assembling as many of his works as possible together in the audience hall used by the late Cardinal Leopoldo dei Medici on the second floor of the Pitti Palace, and transformed it into "a complete and large gallery". The exhibition is arranged in the White Room of the Palatine Gallery and open from June 16th to October 22nd 2006. The idea behind it is to recall this historic and unusual exhibition event with a scientifically prepared reconstruction.

Various documents describe the preparations in honour of Suttermans: a notebook in the general Wardrobe records six portraits carried out by this Flemish painter and a well-known manuscript, perhaps compiled by Filippo Baldinucci and now preserved in the National Library in Florence, lists thirtynine paintings, grouping them together according to their siting.

The Pitti Palace inventory, moreover, written in 1688 and now conserved in the State Archives, records four of the six portraits mentioned in 1678, along with another twentyfour attributed to “Suttermanni”. Twentytwo of these portraits have today been identified and twenty of them are on display in the White Room.

The exhibition, curated by Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato, an expert on Suttermans, is promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Assets and the Special Board for the Florentine Museums.

The White Room greatly resembles the salon that could be found on the second floor of the palace in the 17th century, and that has unfortunately not survived to this day.
Cosimo III's court portrait painter

White Room, Palatine Gallery
Pitti Palace
Info: tel.055.2654321
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 8.15am-6.50pm
Closed on Mondays
Entrance: Euro 8,50 / 4, 25
(including entrance to the Palatine Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art
Until October 22nd 2006
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