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.
 Villa La Petraia

Location within
Italy

General information

Coordinates 43°49′05.84″N
11°14′04.27″E
History

Villa La Petraia, inner court

In 1364, the "palace" of Petraia belonged

to the family Brunelleschi until in 1422
Palla Strozzi bought it and expanded it by
buying the surrounding land.

In the first half of the sixteenth century, the

villa became the property of the Salutati,
who then sold the villa to Cosimo I de'
Medici in 1544, who gave it to his son,
Cardinal Ferdinando in 1568.

Then from 1588, there was a decade of

extensive excavation works which
transformed the "stony" nature of the place
(hence the name in Petraia, that is full of
stones) into dramatic sequence of
terraces dominated by the massive main
building.

It is traditionally attributed to Bernard

Buontalenti, even though the only
documented certainty is the presence on
site of Raphael Pagni.
Giusto Utens paintings
In 2014 a new permanent gallery at Petraia
Villa Medici was opened to display the 14
surviving paintings of Medici villas by
Giusto Utens (previously held by the
Museo di Firenze com'era).[1]

References
1. Giusto Utens Lunettes in Petraia Villa
Medici

Further reading
Mignani, Daniela (1995) [1991]. The
Medicean Villas by Giusto Utens (2nd
ed.). Florence: Arnaud. ISBN 88-8015-
 000-6.

External links
Polo Museale della Toscana: Firenze - Villa
medicea della Petraia

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