Villa Medici by Artimino

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The Villa Medici in Artimino

The Villa Medici in Artimino (also La Ferdinanda ), Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII. 1, belongs to the municipality of Carmignano , Province of Prato , Region Tuscany , Italy.

history

The Grand Duke Ferdinando I had the villa built on the ridge of Monte Albano by his preferred builder Bernardo Buontalenti from 1594 . With the extinction of the Medici with Gian Gastone in 1737, the property fell to the House of Lorraine . The Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo sold the villa to the Marchese Lorenzo Bartolomei in 1781, who bequeathed it to the Conte Passerini in 1848. In 1911 Count Maraini bought it and began to restore the neglected villa. In 1944 it was damaged during the fighting. After a recent restoration, it is now owned by a private company that rents the space for events.

The Villa

Walk around the villa

Although the villa was intended as a hunting seat, it should still be large enough to accommodate the entire court. Buontalenti therefore created a wide, rectangular building, the massive impression of which is reinforced by the corner bastions. The undivided facade is broken up in the middle by a loggia. An elegant, curved staircase, which was added in 1930 by the architect Enrico Lusini according to the original plans found in the Uffizi by Buontalenti, leads up to the piano nobile . In the barrel vault of the loggia there are frescoes by Passignano . A large hall branches off to the left and right of the entrance area. In the stanza delle ville , the famous 14 lunettes Giust Utens placed before the museum Firenze com'era were transferred to Florence.

The villa has 56 rooms, and among them there are some with such strange names as "the lions' room", "the grooms", "the bodyguard" and "the widows". Another special feature is the large number of chimneys, which all end in different chimneys. Despite the considerable number of rooms, another building, the Paggeria , was built a little away from the villa , which was used to accommodate the service personnel (pages). Today there is a hotel in it.

The Villa Artimino never had a garden to speak of. The reason for this is the lack of water on the ridge.

literature

  • Harold Acton : Villas in Tuscany. Benteli, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-7165-0468-8 .
  • Gerda Bödefeld, Berthold Hinz : The villas of Tuscany and their gardens. Art and cultural history travels through the landscapes around Florence and Pistoia, Lucca and Siena. DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2275-5 ( DuMont documents. DuMont art travel guide ).
  • Carlo Cresti: Villas in Tuscany. Recordings by Massimo Listri. Hirmer, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7774-5920-8 .
  • Gianni C. Sciolla: The Medici Villas in Tuscany. Atlantis-Verlag, Herrsching 1989, ISBN 3-88199-614-1 .

Web links

Commons : Villa Medici by Artimino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 54.7 "  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 39.5"  E