Detail View: Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive: Villa Medici, Fiesole (complex)

Collection: 
Catena-Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive
Image No.: 
201746
Title: 
Villa Medici, Fiesole (complex)
View: 
Importance of the terraces and the loggia in the new concepts of nature, geometry in space in the 15th century
Dates: 
1458-1462
View Type: 
plan views
View Date: 
1992
Location: 
Europe--Italy--Tuscany--Fiesole
Location Type: 
Current
Culture: 
Florentine; Italian
Period: 
Renaissance
Creator: 
patron Medici, Cosimo de' 1389-1464 Florentine
Creator: 
architect Michelozzo di Bartolommeo 1396-1472 Italian
Creator: 
patron Medici, Giovanni de' 1421-1463 Florentine
Creator: 
architect Pinsent, Cecil Reworking 1884-1963 British
Category: 
Villas
Work Type: 
Villas (complexes)
Work Type: 
Villae suburbanae
Subjects: 
Villa Medici (Fiesole, Italy); Medici family; Villeggiatura; Terraces; Florence (Italy); Humanism; Letters of Pliny the Younger (1st CCE); Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472; Villa suburbanae; Terraces; Loggias; Architectural drawings; Sight lines
Image Notes: 
Ree, van der Paul, Gerrit Smienk and Clemens Steenbergen. Italian villas and gardens. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1992, p. 69.
Copyright Notice: 
(c) Paul van der Ree, Gerrit Smienk and Clemens Steenbergen
Rights Type: 
fair use - These images are intended for research and educational use only. To obtain copyright permission for publication or other purposes, you must contact the copyright holder directly.