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The Duke of Florence's secret refuge and museum.
Created in the 1560s, Palazzo Vecchio's secret refuge, the Studiolo Francesco I de' Medici, was reserved for Duke of Tuscany from 1574 to 1613. Giorgio Vasari with some of his students, Vincenzo Borghini and Giovanni Batista Adriani are credited with crafting this jewelry box-like vault room. This cabinet of curiosities is much lauded as one of the earliest and most remarkable examples. Unfortunately none of the objects held in its twenty cabinets were kept - each cabinet displayed an emblematic image indicating its contents collected by the duke during his travels across the world.
