The Medici Villas
Author : Isabella Lapi Ballerini
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788809029958
Author : Isabella Lapi Ballerini
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788809029958
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
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Presents information about the villas of the 15th and 16th centuries that belonged to the Florence, Italy, family of Medici. Contains information about the villas of Artimino, Careggi, Castello, Cerreto Guidi, Demidoff, La Petraia, and Poggio a Caiano. Notes the address, transportation information, history, and description of the villas. Links to related Web sites.
Author : Stefano Casciu
Publisher : Edizioni Polistampa
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Utile guida alle ville e ai giardini nei dintorni di Firenze, il libro permette di conoscere i complessi architettonici rurali delle più illustri e nobili famiglie fiorentine, prima fra tutte quella dei Medici, e le testimonianze archeologiche della Piana e delle colline a nord-ovest di Firenze. "Circondate da splendidi parchi e giardini - recita la presentazione di Matteo Renzi - le ville medicee, ma non solo, sono una grande ricchezza per i fiorentini ma anche per i turisti". A partire dalla formidabile triade delle ville medicee della zona di confine con Sesto: Petraia, Castello e Corsini, recentemente rilanciata anche grazie al restauro e all'esposizione di pezzi antichi provenienti dagli Uffizi. Ma tante altre ville, musei, luoghi privilegiati per l'incontro con la natura e con l'arte costellano il percorso: ognuno potrà divertirsi a scoprirli, sul territorio e sul volume. "L'iniziativa inviterà chi non ne ha l'esperienza diretta - scrive Cristina Acidini - a familiarizzare con le novità degli ultimi anni, dalla sistemazione delle magnifiche fontane cinquecentesche di Castello e Petraia alle colture introdotte nei giardini.
Author : Grazia Gobbi Sica
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 113406716X
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author: analyzes the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation looks at the villas existing in the area. A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
Author : Emma Micheletti
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Katie Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1000521001
By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the Medici family dominated European life. While promoting both arts and sciences, the Medici helped create a new style of architecture, present a new idea of villa life and promote the novel idea of living in harmony with nature. Used variously for pleasure and sports, scholarly and amorous liaisons, commercial enterprise and botanical experimentation, their villas both expressed and influenced contemporary ideas on politics, philosophy, art and design. Each patron's public interests and private passions, as well as the architects, artists and philosophers they employed, are examined. Through a chronological approach, this book reveals how the villas were used, their reception by contemporary commentators, their legacy and their current state five centuries after they were first built. Lavishly illustrated, Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture, horticulture, landscape history, philosophy, art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy.
Author : Grazia Gobbi Sica
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134067178
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author: analyzes the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation looks at the villas existing in the area. A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
Author : Richard Stapleford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 027105641X
"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Susan Horner
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Florence (Italy)
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Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691252319
A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper) In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the “country place” as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination.