Palazzo Capponi-Vettori, Renaissance palace along Lungarno Guicciardini, Florence, Italy

Palazzo Capponi-Vettori is a Renaissance palace located along Lungarno Guicciardini with three stories and four windows per row. The building has a main entrance facing the waterfront and an older secondary entrance on Via Santo Spirito.

The site held 14th-century Capponi houses facing the fondacci di Santo Spirito before passing to the Vettori. Ludovico Capponi built a new facade on Via Santo Spirito in 1559 to mark his contested 1557 marriage to Maddalena Vettori; the palace was enlarged around 1598 and again in the later 17th century, then inherited by the Riccardi.

The main rooms feature frescoes depicting stories from the Capponi family's past, painted by Bernardino Poccetti in 1585. These artworks serve as visual records of the family's history and status within the city.

The palace stands at the corner of Lungarno Guicciardini 1 and Via Santo Spirito 4, so both facades can be seen on foot in a few minutes. The Lungarno front, doubled to eight bays in the 19th century, faces the Arno; the narrow Via Santo Spirito side, attributed to Ammannati or Buontalenti, is in shadow most of the day. Look up for the Capponi shield between the windows.

The facade on Via Santo Spirito, only two bays wide, is attributed to Bartolomeo Ammannati or Bernardo Buontalenti; its tabernacle windows and carved stonework are noted as almost without parallel in Florence. The larger Lungarno front was doubled from four to eight bays shortly before 1880 and tinted brick red, a colour then unseen in the city.