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Villa del Poggio Imperiale with the facade envisaged and drawn by Pasquale Poccianti. Pasquale Poccianti, the reservoirs' architect, was "Engineer to the Commune of Livorno" and "Architect of the Royal Works". Poccianti had trained at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti.
Villa del Poggio Imperiale in the early 18th century. The villa was once the property of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany — the Medici.However, the documented history begins in the 15th century when a small villa on the site known as "Villa del Poggio Baroncelli", was built by the Florentine merchant Jacopo Baroncelli [1] The villa was sold to Bartoncelliu's creditor in 1487, and in turn to Pietro ...
Poggio is an Italian word meaning "knoll". It may refer to: ... Poggio, Castello di Annone, Asti, Piedmont; Poggio, ... Villa del Poggio Imperiale, ...
Villa del Poggio Imperiale. The Istituto Statale della Santissima Annunziata (English: Ss. Annunziata Boarding School), currently known as Educandato Statale Santissima Annunziata, was the first female boarding school to be founded in Florence, dating back to 1823.
Pescaglia, the town, is found in the geographical centre of the comune and valley of the Pedogna. It is broken into three distinct urban units, Castello del Poggio or simply il Poggio, Piazzanello and Villabuona. Batoni is a hamlet within the comune. [4]
Vertumnus and Pomona is a fresco decoration in the Medici country villa at Poggio a Caiano (near Montalbano), executed c. 1519–1521 by Jacopo Pontormo. [1] The villa is set among orchards and gardens, and in summer, served as a retreat from the heat in Florence. The fresco is contained within a lunette high in a barrel-vaulted central hall.
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The House of Savoy opted to sell all but two of the remaining Medici villas (La Petraia & Poggio a Caiano), which remained in their possession until the end of the monarchy in 1946. Today, some of the Medici villas are museums; others are occupied by institutions, and a few are owned privately, and often hired privately or used to stage public ...