Palazzo Taddei, Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy.

Palazzo Taddei displays classic Florentine Renaissance architecture with symmetrical windows, stone details, and a central courtyard featuring elegant arches supported by pietra serena columns.

Vasari records that Baccio d'Agnolo built a house for Taddeo Taddei, whose family had grown rich in the wool trade. Sold in 1542 to Giovanni Giraldi, it was enlarged by the Giraldi in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1789 it passed to the Pecori Giraldi, and in 1847 Lorenzo Ginori Lisci bought it; his descendants still own it.

The palace maintains historical connections to renowned artists like Raphael and Michelangelo, who visited the Taddei family during the height of the Florentine Renaissance artistic movement.

The palace is at Via de' Ginori 15, a short walk from the San Lorenzo market and the Duomo. The entrance hall, closed by an iron gate bearing the Ginori coat of arms, leads to a courtyard now covered by a skylight and occupied by a music publisher and the Florence Academy music school. The building is private and not open for visits.

The Tondo Taddei in the courtyard is a copy; Michelangelo carved the original for Taddeo Taddei, and it is now at the Royal Academy in London. Raphael, a guest of Taddeo, gave him the Madonna del Prato, now in Vienna.