Museo Horne

The Museo Horne is a museum focusing on art and furnishings of the 14th and 15th centuries, located in the former Palazzo Corsi, on via de' Benci number 6 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Museo Horne

History of the Palazzo Corsi-Horne

Buildings at the site were known from the early 14th century. In 1489, the site with large house was ceded by the Alberti family to Simone and Luigi di Jacopo Corsi. Over the period of 1495–1502, the structure was rebuilt with designs attributed to either Giuliano da Sangallo or more likely Simone del Pollaiolo with the sculptural help of the studio/followers of Baccio d'Agnolo or Benedetto da Rovezzano.

In 1911, the architect and art historian Herbert Percy Horne acquired the Palazzo Corsi on via de' Benci, in order to house his early Renaissance collections. He willed his collections and the palace to the state, with the stipulation that it be made into a museum and foundation.

Catalogue of works on display

Author	Subject/Title	Type	Data	Hall
Florentine	Sgabello con spalliera	tapestry	c. 1550–1620	First floor – 1
Agnolo di Polo	Salvatore	sculpture	c. 1500–1510	First floor – 1
Emilian	Armadio a due corpi	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 1
Florentine	Sgabello con spalliera	tapestry	c. 1600–1620	First floor – 1
Jacopo Sansovino	Madonna and Child	sculpture	c. 1500–1550	First floor – 1
Emilian	Sacrifice of Isaac	sculpture	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 1
Emilian	Partenza di Esaù	sculpture	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 1
Florentine	Cassapanca	tapestry	c. 1500–1520	First floor – 1
Florentine	Madonna and Child	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 1
Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino	Adoration of Child	painting	c. 1450–1500	First floor – 1
Giovanni Francesco Tura	Adoration by Shepherds	painting	c. 1520	First floor – 1
Dosso Dossi	Allegory of Music	painting	c. 1485	First floor – 1
Jacopo del Sellaio	St Jerome Penitent	painting	c. 1485	First floor – 1
Francesco Morone	Communion of St Onofrius	painting	c. 1510–1515	First floor – 1
Luca Signorelli	Saint Catherine of Alexandria	painting	c. 1512	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Cassapanca	tapestry	c. 1575–1600	First floor – 1
Maestro di San Severino	Exorcism of a possessed woman	painting	1480–1482	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Savonarola chair	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 1
Andrea della Robbia (scuola)	Madonna and Child	sculpture	c. 1490	First floor – 1
Naddo Ceccarelli (attr.)	Crucifixion with mourners	painting	c. 1325–1350	First floor – 1
Masaccio	Scenes from the Life of Saint Julian	painting	c. 1424	First floor – 1
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrosio	St Agatha	painting	c. 1440–1450	First floor – 1
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrosio	St Ursula	painting	c. 1440–1450	First floor – 1
Niccolò di Segna	Christ Crucified	painting	1330–1335	First floor – 1
School of Fra Damiano da Bergamo	St George and the dragon	wooden mosaic	c. 1525–1550	First floor – 1
Italian	Virtù	sculpture	c. 1200–1299	First floor – 1
Southcentral Italy	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1600–1850	First floor – 1
Filippino Lippi	Standard with Crucifixion	painting	c. 1490	First floor – 1
Emilian	Madonna and Child	sculpture	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 1
Central Italian	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1600–1620	First floor – 1
Henry Harris Brown	Portrait of Herbert P. Horne	painting	1908	First floor – 1
Giovanni dal Ponte	Madonna and Child	painting	c. 1400–1420	First floor – 1
Baldassarre Carrari (attr.)	Madonna and Child and two ingers	painting	c. 1450–1500	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Culla	tapestry	c. 1550–1600	First floor – 1
Pietro Lorenzetti	Three Saints	painting	c. 1315	First floor – 1
Piero di Cosimo	Saint Jerome in Meditation	painting	c. 1495–1500	First floor – 1
Florentine	Cassone a sarcofago	tapestry	c. 1475–1500	First floor – 1
Francesco di Antonio di Bartolomeo	St Mary Magdalen, Archangel Raphael, Tobias, and female donor	painting	c. 1425–1430	First floor – 1
Da Donatello	Due calchi dei Putti dancing dal Pergamo di Prato	sculpture	?	First floor – 1
Florentine	Sacra famiglia	painting	c. 1450–1499	First floor – 1
Bernardo Daddi	Madonna and Child enthroned with saints	painting	c. 1336–1337	First floor – 1
Bernardo Daddi	Crucifixion	painting	c. 1336–1337	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Cassone	tapestry	c. 1400–1599	First floor – 1
Benozzo Gozzoli	Deposition of Christ	painting	1491	First floor – 1
Sienese	Gradino	sculpture	c. 1550–1600	First floor – 1
Desiderio da Settignano	Head of Harpy	sculpture	c. 1458–1459 (with restoration 19th century.)	First floor – 1
School of Donatello	Bust of child	sculpture	c. 1440–1499	First floor – 1
Sienese	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1450–1500	First floor – 1
Florentine	Madonna and Child and young John the Baptist	painting	c. 1490	First floor – 1
Bartolomeo di Giovanni	Mythologic Composition	painting	c. 1450–1500	First floor – 1
Italian	Cassettina	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Bacile in rame	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 1
Tuscan	Cassone	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 1
Bartolomeo Ammannati	Male nude	sculpture	c. 1580–1590	First floor – 1
Jacopo Sansovino	cavaliere che calpesta un vinto	sculpture	c. 1506–1510	First floor – 1
Giambologna	Venus accovacciata	sculpture	c. 1584	First floor – 1
Emilian	Tavolo	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 1
South-central Italy	Sei sgabelli con spalliera a ventaglio	tapestry	c. 1500–1699	First floor – 1
Lorenzo di Credi	Adoration del Bambino con san Giovannino	painting	c. 1500–1510	First floor – 2
Florentine	Paride giacente	painting	c. 1450	First floor – 2
Sienese	Cassone con gli stemmi Bellucci and Teodosi	tapestry	c. 1500–1550	First floor – 2
Carlo Dolci	St Sebastian	painting	c. 1630–1680	First floor – 2
Lo Scheggia	Madonna and Child and two angels	painting	c. 1426	First floor – 2
Tuscan	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1590–1610	First floor – 2
Francesco Furini	Wife of Lot	painting	c. 1640–1645	First floor – 2
Emilian	Armadio	tapestry	c. 1600–1699 c.	First floor – 2
Andrea del Brescianino	Child Jesus and young St John the Baptist	painting	c. 1510	First floor – 2
Niccolò Giolfino	Two scenes from myth of Phaeton	painting	c. 1510	First floor – 2
Pittore veneto	Ritratto del sultano Selim I	painting	c. 1512–1520	First floor – 2
Maestro del Polittico della Cappella Medici	Tabernacolo portatile	painting	c. 1300–1350	First floor – 2
Gian Lorenzo Bernini	Bozzetto per angeli in gloria	sculpture	c. 1650	First floor – 2
Francesco Curradi	Cena in Emmaus	painting	c. 1620–1630	First floor – 2
Manifattura veneziana	Calice con coppa	vetro	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 2
Florentine	Decollation del Battista	painting	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 2
Neri di Bicci	Madonna and Child and due angeli	painting	c. 1450–1492	First floor – 2
Maestro del Crocifisso Corsi	Martirio di san Pietro	painting	c. 1330	First floor – 2
Naddo Ceccarelli	Madonna and Child	painting	c. 1347	First floor – 2
Manifattura veneziana	Paiolo	tapestry	c. 1500–1699	First floor – 2
Tuscan	Cassone	tapestry	c. 1500–1550	First floor – 2
Giotto	Saint Stephen	painting	c. 1330–1335	First floor – 2
Lucchese	Vergin of the Annunciation	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 2
Central Italian	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1590–1610	First floor – 2
Jacopo del Casentino	Madonna and Child	painting	c. 1300–1350	First floor – 2
Lorenzo di Credi and bottega	Cassone con stemma Pitti	tapestry	c. 1490	First floor – 2
Francesco Furini	Semiramide	painting	c. 1640–1645	First floor – 2
Boccaccio Boccaccino	Christ blessing	painting	1497–1499	First floor – 2
Domenico Beccafumi	Deucalion and Pyrrha	painting	c. 1525–1530	First floor – 2
Pietro di Francesco Orioli (attr.)	Christ crowned with thorns	painting	c. 1490	First floor – 2
Francesco Furini	Artemisia	painting	c. 1630–1640	First floor – 2
Giambologna	Nudo virile	sculpture	c. 1572	First floor – 2
Manifattura dell'Italia centrale	Tavolo	tapestry	c. 1550–1600	First floor – 2
Giampietrino	Santa Maria Maddalena	painting	c. 1500–1550	First floor – 3
Niccolò di Tommaso	St John the Evangelist	painting	c. 1350	First floor – 3
Central Italian	balia chair	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 3
Lippo di Benivieni (attr.)	Maestà coi santi Pietro and Lucia	painting	1315–1318	First floor – 3
Maestro di Anghiari	Scena di battaglia	painting	c. 1460–1470	First floor – 3
Manifattura dell'Italia centrale	Cassone	tapestry	c. 1490 con restauri del XIX secolo	First floor – 3
Niccolò di Tommaso	St Paul	painting	c. 1350	First floor – 3
Florentine	Bust of Man	sculpture	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 3
Lorenzo Monaco	Portable Crucifix	painting	1405–1410	First floor – 3
Ubmbrian	Pace con Cristo in pietà	painting	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 3
Pier Antonio degli Abbati	Architectural perspective	wooden mosaic	1485–1487	First floor – 3
Agnolo Gaddi	Volto di Cristo	painting	c. 1385–1390	First floor – 3
Florentine	Sgabelli Strozzi (2)	tapestry	c. 1500–1550	First floor – 3
Desiderio da Settignano (attr.)	young st John the Baptist	sculpture	c. 1450	First floor – 3
Girolamo di Benvenuto	Venere and Cupido	painting	c. 1500–1525	First floor – 3
Taddeo Gaddi	Madonna and Child	painting	c. 1320–1350	First floor – 3
Pittore toscano	Madonna and Child and un donatore	painting	c. 1290	First floor – 3
Tuscan	Sgabello con spalliera	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 3
Domenico Beccafumi	Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor	painting	c. 1528	First floor – 3
Florentine	Busto femminile	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 3
Florentine	Stipo	tapestry	c. 1450–1500 con restauri del 1850–1899 c.	First floor – 3
Florentine	Busto femminile	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 3
Sienese	Bancone da sagrestia	tapestry	c. 1400–1499	First floor – 3
Vecchietta	San Paolo	sculpture	c. 1460	First floor – 3
Lorenzo Ghiberti (studio)	Croce astile	sculpture	c. 1410–1450	First floor – 3
Agnolo di Polo (attr.)	St Jerome in prayer	sculpture	c. 1490	First floor – 3
Central Italian	Cassone da monacation with Stories of Giuseppe ebreo	tapestry	c. 1450	First floor – 3
Italian	Copy of cassette-reliquiario	tapestry	c. 1800–1899	First floor – 3
Florentine	Tavola reale	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 3
Southern Italian	Cassetta for Charity	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	First floor – 3
Central Italian	Tavolo	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	First floor – 3
Giorgio Vasari	Portrait of Giorgio Vasari	painting	1600–1699 c.	Second floor – 1
Bartolomeo di Giovanni	Madonna and Child and young St John the Baptist	painting	c. 1490	Second floor – 1
Southern Italian	Cassone	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	two chairs	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	Sgabello con spalliera	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	Second floor – 1
Florentine	David kills Goliath	painting	c. 1450–1460	Second floor – 1
Florentine	Triumph of David	painting	c. 1450–1460	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	Credenza	tapestry	1610 c. restored 19th century	Second floor – 1
Central Italian	Chair a pozzetto	tapestry	1490–1510 c.	Second floor – 1
Bartolomeo della Gatta	St Roch	painting	1486–1487 c.	Second floor – 1
Antonio Begarelli (attr.)	Madonna and Child and young St John the Baptist	sculpture	c. 1520–1565	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	Credenza	tapestry	1600–1699 rewoven 19th century	Second floor – 1
Tommaso del Mazza (attr.)	St Catherine of Alexandria	painting	c. 1370–1375	Second floor – 1
Luca della Robbia	Madonna and Child and two angels	sculpture	?	Second floor – 1
Giovanni di Paolo	Young St John the Baptist	painting	c. 1450	Second floor – 1
Adriatic painter	Cristo in pietà con la Vergine dolente	painting	c. 1300–1350	Second floor – 1
School of Giotto	Madonna and Child in trono and santi	painting	c. 1300–1399	Second floor – 1
Filippo Lippi	Pietà	painting	c. 1435–1440	Second floor – 1
Naddo Ceccarelli (attr.)	Crucifixion with Magdalen and mourners	painting	c. 1333	Second floor – 1
Italian	Custodia per monete	tapestry	c. 1800–1899	Second floor – 1
South-Central Italian	Stipo a uso di medagliere	tapestry	1600–1699 con aggiunte del 20th century	Second floor – 1
Antonio Rossellino	Madonna dei Candelabri	sculpture	c. 1450–1479	Second floor – 1
Alfonso Lombardi	St Petronius	sculpture	c. 1500–1530	Second floor – 1
Alfonso Lombardi	San Domenico	sculpture	1500–1530 c.	Second floor – 1
Manifattura italiana	Stipo a uso di medagliere	tapestry	1850–1899 c.	Second floor – 1
Matteo di Giovanni	Madonna and Child tra i santi Pietro and Paolo	painting	1460 c.	Second floor – 1
Francesco Salviati	Ritratto di ignoto	painting	1500–1550 c.	Second floor – 1
Filippino Lippi	Queen Vashti Leaving the Royal Palace	painting	1480 c.	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1700–1799	Second floor – 1
Maestro di San Martino a Mensola	San Francesco and two donors	painting	1385–1390 c.	Second floor – 1
Florentine	Episode of Battle of Anghiari	painting	1500–1599 c.	Second floor – 1
Maestro del Trittico Horne	Horne triptych	painting	1310–1320 c.	Second floor – 1
Master of Panzano	Predella of Christ and saints	painting	1370–1380 c.	Second floor – 1
Sienese	Armadio da sagrestia	tapestry	c. 1450	Second floor – 1
Lombard	Christ Crucified and santi	painting	c. 1500–1599 c.	Second floor – 1
Piedmontese	Poltrona	tapestry	1600–1699 c.	Second floor – 1
Timoteo Viti (attr.)	Redeemer	painting	1510 c.	Second floor – 1
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi	Diptych of Madonna and Child and Christ in pietà	painting	1326–1328	Second floor – 1
Lombard	St Peter	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	Second floor – 1
Lombard	St Paul	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	Second floor – 1
Florentine	Sacristy bench	tapestry	c. 1450–1500	Second floor – 1
Tuscan	St John the Baptist	sculpture	c. 1400–1499	Second floor – 1
Sienese	Tre dipinti con fatti storici della famiglia Piccolomini	painting	c. 1600–1699	Second floor – 2
Master of Crucifix of San Michele in Foro (attr.)	Madonna and Child	painting	1150–1175	Second floor – 2
Florentine	Chair a "iccasse"	tapestry	c. 1590	Second floor – 2
Florentine	Funeral of Grand Duke Cosimo III	painting	c. 1723	Second floor – 2
Emilian	Armadio	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	Second floor – 2
Da Piero della Francesca	Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro	painting	c. 1470–1500	Second floor – 2
South-central Italian	Sgabello con spalliera a ventaglio	tapestry	c. 1500–1599	Second floor – 2
Francesco Vanni	Moses breaks the tablets of the law	painting	c. 1500–1599	Second floor – 2
Sienese	Cassone con stemmi Bellucci and Teodosi	tapestry	c. 1500–1550	Second floor – 2
Umbrian	chair	tapestry	c. 1690	Second floor – 2
Follower of Leonardo	Christ Savior	painting	c. 1510	Second floor – 2
Tuscan	Sgabello con spalliera	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	Second floor – 2
Florentine	Lettuccio	tapestry	c. 1490–1510	Second floor – 2
Domenico Beccafumi	Putti Bearing a Tondo showing the Drunkenness of Noah	painting	c. 1522–1523	Second floor – 2
South-Central Italian	Chair	tapestry	c. 1700–1799	Second floor – 2
Bolognese	Portrait of architect	painting	c. 1500–1599	Second floor – 2
Angelo di Lorentino (attr.)	St Sebastian	painting	c. 1500–1550	Second floor – 2
Tuscan	Child Jesus in fasce	painting	c. 1510	Second floor – 2
Pseudo-Jacopino di Francesco	Madonna and Child	painting	c. 1300–1350	Second floor – 2
Tuscan	Credenza	tapestry	c. 1600–1699 c.	Second floor – 2
Neri di Bicci	Archangel Raphael, Tobias and St Jerome	painting	c. 1450–1492	Second floor – 2
Tuscan	Cofanetto	tapestry	c. 1800–1899	Second floor – 2
South-Central Italian	Table	tapestry	c. 1600–1699	Second floor – 2

Further reading

Zaccagnini, Laura (2015). Bordi figurati del Rinascimento nella collezione Horne. Florence: Edifi. ISBN 9788879706728.