The Allori Logetta
Loggetta dell'Allori
This is one of the more suggestive rooms in the palace. It originally consisted of an arcade, open to the Pages' Courtyard and facing the exquisite camellia garden. It was frescoed by Alessandro Allori and his workshop in 1588 as part of the work ordered by Ferdinando I for the Medici ladies' apartments. The three walls of the arcade, enclosed in the 19th century with three large windows, are decorated with river landscapes, animals and small figures within graphic architectonic perspectives. The ceiling vault, on the other hand, is frescoed with six female figures engaged in domestic tasks. In the center, the Medici coat-of-arms surmounted with a cardinal's hat is a reference to the commissioning of the work by Ferdinando I in 1588, the year before his marriage to Cristina of Lorraine, when he was still a cardinal.
Bandini, Fabrizio, et al; "La 'Loggetta' dell' Allori; un spazio Ritrovato"; OPD Restauro, No. 6 (1994), pp. 31-40, 147-149.