Exterior view
by KLENZE, Leo von, Photo
In his reshaping of Munich as a modern royal seat, Ludwig I of Bavaria drew on sundry historical styles for palace building. Thus he commissioned from Leo von Klenze a royal palace using forms of the Florentine Renaissance. The outline of fa�ade of the realized palace, the Residenz, follows that of the Palazzo Pitti, while the articulation and rusticated masonry were taken from the Palazzo Ruccelai.