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    The Villa di Castello, near the hills bordering Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, was the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany...
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    Cafaggiolo Villa di Careggi Villa di Castello Villa di Cerreto Guidi Villa La Magia Villa La Petraia Villa Medici in Fiesole Villa di Poggio a Caiano Villa del...
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    magnificent image for their powerful patrons." The central fountain at Villa di Castello featured a statue of Hercules, symbolizing Cosimo de' Medici, the...
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    giants emerging from the earth (as at Villa di Pratolino), the maze and the fountain of Venus (as at Villa di Castello), where Poliphile and Polia were reconciled...
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    1900 it was discovered at the Villa di Castello near Florence. It was printed in 1916 and received the name "Castello Plan" at that time. It is covered...
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    phenomenon could have a single father. At his mother's villa, where he had spent his youth, the Villa di Castello at Rifredi near Florence, Grand Duke Cosimo entrusted...
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    Città di Castello (Italian pronunciation: [tʃitˈta ddi kasˈtɛllo]); "Castle Town") is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part...
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  • Medici villas Villa del Trebbio Villa di Castello Santi Severino e Sossio, Naples Wikimedia Commons has media related to House of Medici. History of Florence...
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    his son and successor Francesco I. He retreated to live in his villa, the Villa di Castello, outside Florence. Cosimo was an authoritarian ruler and secured...
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    Island. One of the copies came from the same collection as the Castello Plan at Villa di Castello, and is now held at the New York Public Library. The other...
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    coastal fort, it was called the Castello di San Giorgio. After peace fell upon the region in the early 19th century, the Castello was abandoned. Some decades...
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    43.8161167°N 11.2324639°E / 43.8161167; 11.2324639 Villa Corsini a Castello is a suburban villa near Florence, Italy, located in via della Petraia. The...
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    Lorenzo di Pierfranceso was the proprietor of the Villa del Trebbio, inherited from his grandfather Lorenzo the Elder, and Villa di Castello, acquired...
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    Closed fingers Side view A fingered citron Semi-closed fingers In Villa di Castello Semi dwarf fingered citron (green) With open fingers Cross section...
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    both seen by Vasari in the mid-16th century at the Villa di Castello, owned from 1477 by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, and until the publication...
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    Belvedere Villa Medici di Castello Villa Medici La Petraia Villa di Pratolino Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana Villa di Lappeggi Villa di Poggio a Caiano Villa di Serravezza...
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    painting was commissioned soon after the purchase in 1477 of the Villa di Castello, a country house outside Florence, by Lorenzo and Giovanni, to decorate...
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    The Villa Giustinian, Ciani Bassetti, known as Castello di Roncade, is a Venetian villa in Roncade, near Treviso. The villa is surrounded by turreted...
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    was Michelozzo, who remodelled the fortified villa which had something of the character of a castello. Its famous garden is walled about, like a medieval...
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    her son, Cosimo I de' Medici, elected. Maria set up residence at Villa di Castello in northern Florence, where she would look after her grandchildren...
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    The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo is a villa situated near the Tuscan town of Barberino di Mugello in the valley of the River Sieve, some 25 kilometres north...
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    plan of New York City was known as the Castello Plan because it was later rediscovered at the Villa di Castello near Florence, Italy, in 1900. The map...
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    doubtless found his specimens for illustration from the gardens of Villa di Castello which is just north of Florence, and was the brainchild of Cosimo...
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    Eleonora di Toledo, refused to tolerate her presence in the palace after their marriage, so Cosimo sent her off to the Villa di Castello, her paternal...
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    Renate (March 1968). "The Grotto of the unicorn and the harden of the Villa Di Castello". The Art Bulletin. 50 (1): 51–58. doi:10.1080/00043079.1968.10789120...
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    The Castello di Santa Eurasia is a former castle on Monte Tezio near Ponte Pattoli in Umbria, Italy. It was built in the 15th century and is owned by...
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    described as Primavera by the art historian Giorgio Vasari who saw it at Villa Castello, just outside Florence, by 1550. Although the two are now known not...
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    Ammannati's Fountain of Neptune, Florence. For the grotto of the Villa di Castello he sculpted a series of studies of individual animals, from life,...
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  • Palazzo Terranova (category Buildings and structures in Città di Castello)
    1656833°E / 43.4079889; 12.1656833 The Palazzo Terranova is a villa in Ronti, near Città di Castello in Umbria, Italy. It was built in the 18th century and has...
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    century it hung in the Palazzo Vecchio. In 1638 it was at the Medici Villa di Castello, as was the Primavera, then it is recorded in the Pitti Palace by...
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