Category Archives: Buontalenti’s Grotto

The extraordinary, the breathtaking, the magical Grand Grotto of Bernardo Buontalenti in the Boboli Gardens

The magic of Buontalenti’s Grotto in the Boboli Gardens

Within the Boboli Gardens of the Pitti Palace, in Florence, lies a magical grotto

Buontalenti's Grotto - entrance
Buontalenti’s Grotto – entrance
Buontalenti's Grotto - watching over the entrance on one side
Buontalenti’s Grotto – watching over the entrance on one side
...and the other
…and the other
Buontalenti's Grotto
Buontalenti’s Grotto

 

Photo: LeeB
Buontalenti’s Grotto – Michelangelo’s Prisoner
Photo: LeeB
Buontalenti’s Grotto

The grotto was a place of shelter for the shepherds

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Buontalenti’s Grotto

with Michelangelo’s contribution

Photo: LeeB
Buontalenti’s Grotto
Buontalenti's Grotto
Buontalenti’s Grotto
Buontalenti's Grotto
Buontalenti’s Grotto
Buontalenti's Grotto - Michelangelo's Prisoner
Buontalenti’s Grotto – Michelangelo’s Prisoner
Buontalenti's Grotto
Buontalenti’s Grotto
Photo: LeeB
Buontalenti’s Grotto

 

Buontalenti's Grotto
Buontalenti’s Grotto
Buontalenti's Grotto - Bandinelli's Ceres
Buontalenti’s Grotto – Bandinelli’s Ceres
Buontalenti's Grotto - Helen and Theseus
Buontalenti’s Grotto – Helen and Theseus
Vincenzo de Rossi's Helen and Theseus
Vincenzo de Rossi’s Helen and Theseus

 

What do you think of the fantastic walls of the grotto? I find them extraordinarily beautiful.

Click here to access the beautiful gardens in which this magical grotto lives: The Boboli Gardens