THE PALAZZO MEDICI:

Medici Riccardi Palace is one the most important monuments in Florence, a prototype of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Medici Riccardi Palace hosts temporary exhibitions and experimental virtual envinronment for museums and galleries.

The facade is divided into three floors through the different treatment of rustic rigs and the padding of the wall. There is a gradation of an ashlar padding at the bottom evolving to a much smoother and polished on top padding. Each floor is separated by means of blown cornices.

Dovelaje important within it are vain bíforos, this taken from classical antiquity.

The use of padded ashlar was used as a symbol of wealth and power, as it was very expensive and difficult to do.

Built in the mid-fifteenth century by Michelozzo for the Medici, the building became the prototype of 'Renaissance civil architecture. The rugged and austere mass of the building, originally designed as a sort of hub, was at least a century, the most direct and effective political and cultural primacy of the Medici in Florence.