Palazzo Ginori, Florence, Renaissance palace in San Giovanni district, Florence, Italy

Palazzo Ginori stands at Via de' Ginori 11, its front rising over three storeys on six axes, topped by a spacious altana. Round-arched windows framed in pietraforte mark the two upper floors, while the ground floor has five rectangular windows and an entrance door set asymmetrically on the fourth axis. A shield with the Ginori arms sits at the centre of the facade, and exposed stone buttresses reinforce the corners.

Carlo Ginori bought three neighbouring houses in 1515 and had the palace built between 1516 and 1520, attributed to Baccio d'Agnolo. A lost family archive book prevents definitive confirmation of the architect. The original facade carried monochrome paintings of the Stories of Samson by Mariano da Pescia, now lost.

The rooms display frescoes by Alessandro Gherardini and Carlo Marcellini that reflect the artistic traditions of the city. The ornate walls convey a sense of Florentine taste and prosperity of that era.

The palace stands at Via de' Ginori 11, with its main front on that street and a rear court opening toward Via della Stufa. The entrance door sits asymmetrically on the fourth axis of the ground floor, beneath a facade topped by an open loggia. The 1691-1694 wings enclose a paved courtyard reached through a gate flanked by two statue niches.

The adjacent building at number 13, incorporated in 1730, had belonged to the Masi family and housed descendants of sculptor Baccio Bandinelli. In the 1730s a chemistry and physics cabinet in the palace hosted experiments that led to the porcelain process and the founding of the Doccia manufactory in 1737.