Villas of Tuscany.

Arts & Photography

Carlo Cresti

Architecture

London: Cassell, 1994

Prominent Florentine scholars and museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of this city on the Arno. The experts introduce superb buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as "insiders" lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia and Palazzo Pitti. Over 500 high quality illustrations, often over more than one page, as well as thematic essays on book illumination, the art of the goldsmith and the treasures of the Medicis round out the text.

Florence: Art and Architecture

Silvestra Bietoletti

antonio-paolucci

History & Criticism

h.f.ullmann

Palazzi of Rome

This comprehensive photographic documentation of Roman villas and palaces not only showcases images of the grand houses of the popes and the nobles of the city, but presents them in their historical framework. The brilliant photographs capture the buildings in their full grandeur and exquisiteness. They lead readers past magnificently decorated facades and guide them through festively decorated halls and artfully arranged gardens.

Claudio Rendina

Europe north of the Alps knew virtually nothing of fine living until Charles VIII of France and his army invaded Italy in the late 15th century. There, in the palaces and villas of Tuscany, the French discovered luxury on a scale beyond anything imagined in the medieval stone castles of the Loire Valley. Even today these villas remain among the wonders of the civilized world, with their architecture conceived by such renowned masters as Sangallo, Buontalenti, and Peruzzi, their interiors radiant with trompel'oeil frescoes attributed to the like of Pontormo, Allori, and II Volterrano, and their lush garden settings replete with fountains, grottoes, statuary, and breathtaking vistas.Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, Villas of Tuscany brings together 40 superb examples ranging in date from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century. Each is captured with all its aristocratic trappings: towers, peach-color stucco walls, and red-tiled roofs; dovecotes, courtyards, and loggias; nobly proportioned salons with sumptuous furnishings; and panoramic views over the Tuscan landscape, a sun-drenched world of rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards, and tall cypresses. The text, by Florentine scholar Carlo Cresti, is richly informative.About the Contributor(s)Carlo Cresti is a practicing architect and a professor of architecture history at the University of Florence. He has written many books on architecture and design, primarily of Florence and Tuscany.Massimo Listri, a Florentine resident, is well known for his photographs of art and architecture, published in such magazines as Elle Decor.

Villas of Tuscany

Photography & Video

Vendome Press, The

Europe north of the Alps knew virtually nothing of fine living until Charles VIII of France and his army invaded Italy in the late 15th century. There, in the palaces and villas of Tuscany, the French discovered luxury on a scale beyond anything imagined in the medieval stone castles of the Loire Valley. Even today these villas remain among the wonders of the civilized world, with their architecture conceived by such renowned masters as Sangallo, Buontalenti, and Peruzzi, their interiors radiant with trompe-l'oeil frescoes attributed to the likes of Pontormo, Allori, and Il Volterrano, and their lush garden settings replete with fountains, grottoes, statuary, and breathtaking vistas.   Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, Villas of Tuscany brings together 40 superb examples ranging in date from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century. Each is captured with all its aristocratic trappings: towers, peach-color stucco walls, and red-tiled roofs; dovecotes, courtyards, and loggias; nobly proportioned salons with sumptuous furnishings; and panoramic views over the Tuscan landscape, a sun-drenched world of rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards, and tall cypresses. The text, by Florentine scholar Carlo Cresti, is richly informative.

Tauris Parke

Photography by Massimo Listri. Translated from the Italian by Janet Angelini. Includes index.

Listri, Massimo

Konemann

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Palazzi of Tuscany

This comprehensive photographic documentation of Roman villas and palaces not only showcases images of the grand houses of the popes and the nobles of the city, but presents them in their historical framework. The brilliant photographs capture the buildings in their full grandeur and exquisiteness. They lead readers past magnificently decorated facades and guide them through festively decorated halls and artfully arranged gardens.

Prominent Florentine scholars and museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of this city on the Arno. The experts introduce superb buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as "insiders" lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia and Palazzo Pitti. Over 500 high quality illustrations, often over more than one page, as well as thematic essays on book illumination, the art of the goldsmith and the treasures of the Medicis round out the text.

Florence Art And Architecture

Ullmann Publishing

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Books by Carlo Cresti

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Villas of Tuscany.

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