In the early decades of the 17th century decorative painting in Florence is still tied to traditional ornamentation late-mannerist by Alessandro Allori or Bernardino Barbatelli who is called Poccetti. Between 1636 and 1637, the Grand Duke Ferdinando the 2nd called to Florence Pietro da Cortona, Angelo Michele Colonna e Agostino Mitelli to upgrade the artistic environment. Between 1637 and 1641, with the decoration of three representation rooms, the two bolognese completed the painting cycle who celebrating the Ferdinando's Government, started by Giovanni da San Giovanni in the summer residence of Palazzo Pitti. The intervention, according most modern baroque language, who sees the perfect integration of architectural illusionism and exceeds the limitations of real space with the figurative, will be in Florentine environment inescapable reference model in interior decorating, great modern solutions on which will be formed Jacopo Chiavistelli and his school. Even Giovan Carlo, brother of Grand Duke, in 1637 began a series of transformations that lasted for over twenty years, turning the rooms assigned to him in Pitti in places of delights, decorated by the most significant artists of the moment such as Angelo Michele Colonna, Mitelli Agostino, Pietro da Cortona, Jacopo Chiavistelli. It was the latter frescante , active in Pitti Palace since 1650 ,that with his' pupils' decorated in squaring the neighborhoods of members of the grand ducal family, environments largely lost because of the restructuring of Lorena and Savoy. With the work commissioned by Prince Ferdinando in Pitti Palace they closed the great season of squaring in the Florentine baroque.
quadraturism; baroque; Florence
