Palazzo della Stufa, Renaissance palazzo in central Florence, Italy.
Palazzo della Stufa is a Renaissance palace in central Florence featuring three floors and architectural details crafted in pietra serena sandstone. The building stands at the intersection of Piazza San Lorenzo and Via della Stufa, directly facing the Basilica di San Lorenzo.
The palace was built in the 14th century by the Lotteringhi Della Stufa family and remained in their possession for seven centuries. In 1946 it was converted into a residential condominium, marking the end of its period as a private aristocratic residence.
On the Via della Stufa side, a 17th-century tabernacle holds a plaster cast reproducing Donatello's Madonna and Child. The family name comes from the Stufa di San Lorenzo, an ancient public bath they owned; among the Della Stufa were Lotteringo, one of the seven founders of the Servants of Mary, and the friar Girolamo.
The palace stands at Piazza San Lorenzo 4, on the corner of Via della Stufa, facing the basilica's facade. The main entrance and the pietra serena coat of arms are on the piazza side; the 17th-century shrine sits on the Via della Stufa flank. The lower floors keep their original rusticated stonework, visible where the plaster stops.
The palace appears in the 1470s Catena view of Florence, where its six-column roof loggia, or altana, rises behind the Basilica of San Lorenzo; this dates the loggia to around 1470. The building is also numbered on the Buonsignori map of 1584.
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