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For decades, Tomaso's Italian Villa founder Betty Thomas ran a tight ship at the Norton restaurant. It was an establishment where her children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren worked ...
You can live vicariously through Dave and Jenny and see how they took this Italian villa from fixer to fabulous on Tuesday nights beginning March 12 at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST on HGTV.
Giuliano Finelli (1601–1653) was an Italian Baroque sculptor who emerged from the workshop of Bernini. He was born in Carrara to a family of marble masons in a town associated with mining of the stone, and he initially trained with Michelangelo Naccherino .
Finelli is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cynthia Finelli, American engineering educator; Giuliano Finelli (1601–1653), Italian sculptor;
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The Cloister The Temple of Bacchus. Ernest Beckett had visited the villa during his travels in Italy and had fallen in love with it. He bought it from the Amici family in 1904, and enlisted the help of Nicola Mansi, a tailor-barber-builder from Ravello whom he had met in England, to help with the restoration and enlargement of the villa and gardens.
The villa stands out from other villas in Lucca and in Tuscany by the multicoloured facade of the main building obtained using different materials: stone grey and tuff alternating yellow pillars and arches, marble statues of white, ochre plaster at the bottom with the upper part in white.
Site Image Description Arco delle Scalette: Arch built in 1596, whose design is attributed to Palladio, about 1575. It is located in the south-eastern border of the historic center of the city of Vicenza, and it was the only point of access from the city to the sanctuary of Monte Berico.