Villa Corsini a Castello is a suburban villa near

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

, Italy, located in via della Petraia.

History

The origin of the building dates back to 15th century, when it was a rural mansion for the

Strozzi family The House of Strozzi is the name of an ancient (later noble) Florentine family, who like their great rivals the Medici family, began in banking before moving into politics. Until its exile from Florence in 1434, the Strozzi family was by far the ...

. Later on it was owned by the Rinieri family, and during the 16th century

Niccolò Tribolo Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò dei Pericoli, called "Il Tribolo" (1500 – 7 September 1550) was an Italian Mannerist artist in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici in his natal city of Florence. Life Niccolò di Raffaello began as an apprent ...

designed here his first garden, before Boboli. In 1697, in part due its proximity to the Medici

Villa La Petraia Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a distinctive 19th century belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence. History In 1364, the "palace" of Petraia bel ...

, the

Corsini family The House of Corsini is the name of a Florentine princely family. From Poggibonsi to the 14th century The Corsinis originated from the areas of Poggibonsi and from the “Pesa” valley, which are between Siena and Florence. They arrived in Flor ...

bought the villa, and the property underwent to a complete renovation in a sober

baroque style The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

, designed by

Giovan Battista Foggini Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Foggini (25 April 1652 – 12 April 1725) was an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary. Biography Born in Florence, the young Foggini was sent to Rome by the Medici Gran ...

. In 1950s it was acquired by the Italian State, and now it holds a separate section of the

National Archaeological Museum of Florence The National Archaeological Museum of Florence (Italian – Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze) is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy. It is located at 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta (a palace built ...

. File:Salone Centrale vista dall'alto.JPG, Interior File:Villa Corsini, giardino geometrico 01.JPG, Gardens

References

*Grazia Gobbi Sica, ''La Villa Fiorentina'', Alinea, Florence 1998. *''Giardini di Toscana'', a cura della Regione Toscana, Edifir, Florence 2001. *''Toscana etrusca e romana'',

Touring Club Italiano The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) (Italian Touring Club or Touring Club of Italy) is the major Italian national tourist organization. The Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano (TCCI) was founded on 8 November 1894 by a group of bicyclists to promote the ...

, Milan 2003.

External links

* {{commonscat, Villa Corsini (Florence) Corsini a Castello Baroque architecture in Florence

History

See also

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