Palazzo Corsini Antinori, Renaissance palazzo in central Florence, Italy

Palazzo Corsini Antinori is a Renaissance palace at Borgo Santa Croce 6 in Florence. Its austere facade has eight rows of windows, a rusticated portal set off the axis of symmetry, and no heraldic coat of arms. Inside, a central courtyard is surrounded on three sides by a loggia with columns and round arches, with a well at its center.

The Serristori family, documented in this area from the early 1400s, built the palace between the late 15th century and around 1520, when work attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo was completed. In 1587 the Corsini bought it and added rooms around a second porticoed courtyard, finished in 1611 with carved capitals and architraves by sculptor Andrea di Michelangelo Ferrucci and stonemason Bastiano Bozolino. The Corsini moved to their Lungarno palace only in 1640, and in 1886 Eleonora Corsini brought this palace as dowry to Lodovico Antinori.

The courtyard loggia carries the Serristori coat of arms on its carved corbels: a blue shield with a narrow silver band and three six-pointed gold stars. In 1826 Gasparo Martellini painted the lunettes with monochrome figures imitating ancient sarcophagus reliefs, alternating with mythological frescoes. Two statues, Felice Palma's Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts and an Apollo with lyre attributed to Antonio Novelli, were carved for the balustrade of Palazzo Corsini al Parione.

The building now houses the Aquaflor perfume shop and Flor Decor establishment, allowing visitors to explore the palace while shopping for luxury fragrances. You can access the interior courtyard through these commercial spaces as you move through the ground level.

The palace's facade has eight rows of windows but no heraldic coat of arms, and the main portal sits off the axis of symmetry. Inside, the Serristori emblem of a silver band and three six-pointed gold stars survives on the carved corbels of the courtyard loggia.