Museum of Still Life, Art museum in Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano, Italy.
The Museum of Still Life occupies the second floor of Villa Medici and displays around 200 paintings from the family collection. The works span several rooms and focus primarily on depictions of fruits, flowers, and food arrangements.
The collection grew over centuries as successive Medici generations acquired and preserved these paintings. The museum itself was established in 1984 to make this private collection accessible to the public.
The collection represents both Italian and Flemish approaches to still life painting, showing how artists depicted fruits, flowers, and objects with great care. These works reveal the family's passion for both art and natural science.
The museum spaces are easily accessible for viewing and require no special preparations for a standard visit. Allow enough time to look carefully at the paintings, especially if you want to appreciate the fine details in each work.
Two entire rooms are devoted to works by Bartolomeo Bimbi, a painter who documented fruit varieties with scientific precision. His paintings served the family not just as artworks but also as visual records of rare and exotic fruits.
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