In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . pick out thedetails and scheme of decoration in this exhaustlessceiling gallery. Finally, there is a curious part of the Uffizi—if itshould be reckoned with this gallery rather than withthe Pitti—which to some people proves of unusualfascination. It is Vasaris long angled passage whichleads from the west corridor across the Ponte Vecchioand thence to the Pitti Palace. This long overheadtunnel was built by the Medici to connect the PalazzoVecchio with the Palazzo Pitti as a means of safetyin case of a popular uprising. Now it is
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . pick out thedetails and scheme of decoration in this exhaustlessceiling gallery. Finally, there is a curious part of the Uffizi—if itshould be reckoned with this gallery rather than withthe Pitti—which to some people proves of unusualfascination. It is Vasaris long angled passage whichleads from the west corridor across the Ponte Vecchioand thence to the Pitti Palace. This long overheadtunnel was built by the Medici to connect the PalazzoVecchio with the Palazzo Pitti as a means of safetyin case of a popular uprising. Now it is a con-venient short-cut from one picture gallery to another,offering at the same time a wealth of curious intereston its walls. Here are hung the portraits of half athousand worthy and unworthy citizens of Medicean 126 The Galleries Florence, chief among whom are the many Medicithemselves. It is at once the Rogues Gallery and theHall of Fame of Renaissance Florence. From thesefaces look out the history and humanity of a wonder-ful epoch of the worlds CHAPTER X THE GALLERIES (continued) THE PITTI AND ACCADEMIA AT the end of the long passage from the Uffizi,which runs over a famous bridge across afamous river, is the Pitti: a gallery of perfect satis-faction or as nearly that, probably, as one can cometo among all the collections of Europe. By no meansthe largest; indeed, that is one of the joys of Louvre, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, theUffizi just across the river, these and others are thelarge galleries. The Accademia in Venice, theBrera in Milan, the Hague, and the other smallones, but far and away first among them the Pitti,are the galleries one comes really to know and tolove. Although the passage from the Uffizi leads di-rectly to the Pitti, this is not the way to come to it,if the traverse of the passage means that the largergallery has first been visited. One should enter itfresh and unfatigued. The very introduction,Giorglones marvelous Concert, wh
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