The museum takes its name from the collection
of silver coming from Salzburg, which was taken to Pitti
Palace by the Grand-Duke Ferdinando III of Lorena.
This collection of silver, which has been exhibited
in the big hall on the ground floor since the second half of the
19th Century, together with some porcelains, jewelry of the last
heiress of the Medici dynasty; vases in hard stones, cameos, carvings
moved from the Uffizi Gallery and ivories and ambers coming from
the Bargello. The museum of the Florence Grand-Dukes' Treasures
is a result of the hobby of collecting things, which dates back
to Lorenzo Il Magnifico and which was continued over the centuries
with the Lorena dynasty, followed in 1700 by the Medici
dynasty.
The largest and most sumptuously decorated room,
the former Silver Chamber, is decorated with huge frescoes carried
out on the occasion of the wedding of Ferdinando II and Vittoria
della Rovere in 1635, who are depicted in the large vault composition
by Giovanni da San Giovanni.
On the walls, scenes exalting the glory of Lorenzo
the Magnificent by Francesco Furini, Cecco Bravo, Ottavio Vannini.
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