Resumen de Luca Giordano a Palazzo Pitti: un episodio di celebrazione medicea
This article is a study of the iconography of Luca Giordano's canvas in the centre of the vault of the Sala Verde in Palazzo Pitti, painted in 1688 for the antechamber of the Grand Prince Ferdinando de'Medici. The author offers an in-depth reading of the work using the notion of celebrarion of good government by the Medici through a topos of early Florentine history, the bellum faesulanum, and involving the virtues of Concord and Peace. it is here suggested that the person who devised the allegory was Alessandro Segni, a man of letters and prominent figure in the world of the Florentine academies, who worked for the Medici for many years.
