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Sammezzano, or the Castle of Sammezzano, is an Italian palazzo in Tuscany featuring Moorish Revival architectural style. It is located in Leccio , a hamlet of Reggello , in the Province of Florence .
Sammezzano Castle is one of the most mysterious and fascinating places in Tuscany, Italy. Built in the mid-nineteenth century as a monument to oriental art by the Marquis Ferdinando Panciatichi ...
Sebastiano Ximenes had bought the castle of Sammezzano from Giovanni Jacopo de' Medici. The castle remained in the Ximenes family until the family line died out in 1816. [2] [3] This particular Ximenes line died out in Italy in 1816, though the name survives in Florence.
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The Castle of Sammezzano in Leccio is the most important example of orientalist architecture in Italy (the castle and the park are private property and at the moment visitors are not allowed access). Many other churches dot the countryside around Reggello, such as the one dedicated to Sant’Agata ad Arfoli and that of Pitiana, as well as ...
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The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for ...
One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 4] Cartes de Visite: May - August 1863 Andre Adolphe Disderi: Paris, France Albumen print [s 2] The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysberg: July 1863 Alexander Gardner Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States Large-format glass plate [s 2] Sarah Bernhardt: 1864 Nadar ...