Poggio a Caiano I's tennis court (1543) intact but no longer in use. The "palatoia" (as the court was referred to in Tuscany - elsewhere known as "pallacorda") was built for Cosimo I at the same time as his court at Palazzo Pitti. The "tennis" of the Italian Renaissance was hugely popular at court and in the streets as in France where the sport is known as "jeu de paume". "Real tennis" (as it is called today), which requires a customised court with elaborate interior playing surfaces, is the model for modern tennis although the sport played in the Renaissance continues to be
Paris in World War II windows and furniture intended for Carinhall, the luxurious hunting lodge he had built in the "Schorfheide" Forest, in Germany. Another Rothschild-owned painting, "The Astronomer" by Vermeer, was reserved for Hitler himself. Fifteen masterpieces filled railroad boxcars were sent to Germany with Göring's personal train. Göring visited the "Jeu de Paume" twelve more times in 1941, and five times in 1942, adding to his collection. Confiscations continued at banks, warehouses and private residences, with paintings, furniture, statues, clocks and jewelry accumulating at the "Jeu de Paume", and filling the whole ground floor. The staff at the "Jeu de Paume" cataloged 218