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A shed-roofed porch with wooden Tuscan columns and balustrade covers the centrally located main entrance, the two bays to its west, and the east elevation of the main block. The cobblestone siding consists of four horizontal rows per limestone quoin of medium-sized field stones with lime mortar between.
Though the house has some Greek Revival detail, (it actually pre-dates that period) the style of the house has been called Tuscan Revival. The handsome double front staircase was probably added during the 1850s renovation though many believe it was added in the 1930s. Several photos beginning in the 1870s show the double staircase intact.
Italy, in particular Florence and Tuscany, was the founding nation of the Renaissance artistic, cultural and social movement which swept across Europe and revolutionized European thought and philosophy.
The Apennine Colossus (Italian: Colosso dell'Appennino) is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, [1] in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Giambologna ( Flemish sculptor Jean de Boulogne) created the colossal figure, a personification of the Apennine mountains , in the late 1580s.
The Buontalenti fireplace Bianca Cappello's staircase. To the right there is access to the Bianca Cappello apartments, where it is possible to perceive more clearly than elsewhere the Renaissance aspect of the villa. Bianca Cappello was a well-educated and sophisticated Venetian noblewoman who had a relationship with Grand Duke Francesco I.
According to family letters, the upstairs door was made into a window in 1917. Two exterior end-chimneys, well constructed of ashlar masonry, frame the house on either side, serving the four fireplaces in the original one-bay deep I-plan part of the house. The chimney on the north side of the house was rebuilt in the early twentieth century.
Romanesque architecture in Tuscany, Italy. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A. Romanesque architecture in Arezzo (2 P) C.
It had three floors and 15 rooms, each with a fireplace. Partitions downstairs could be removed to create an 80-foot long ballroom. Verandas supported by Tuscan columns flanked it on it sides, rather than across the front. Its bricks were made handmade by forced labor on the plantation.