Biography

Portrait vom siebzigjährigen Galilei — Galileo aged seventy, painted by Justus Sustermans (1597–1681) The Antwerp-born artist worked in the Medici court and completed Galileo’s portrait in 1635. It hangs in the Uffizi in Florence.

Chronology

Galileo Galilei in Florenz

Galileo's house in Florence, which he bought on 10 December 1629.
At this time his reading matter was Scipione Chiaramonti's De tribus novis stellis.
Ben Leto, flikr Florence in the sixteenth century
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons