Villa Medicea, Cafaggiolo

1599 · Museo di Firenze com'era, Florence

landscape

The picture showing the Villa Medicea at Cafaggiolo is one of the 14 paintings in lunette form which represent the Medici villas. They were made by artist in 1599-1602 for the third grand duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I. The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo was one of the oldest and most favoured of the Medici family estates.

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About the Artist

Giusto Utens

? – 1609

Giusto (Justus) Utens was a Flemish/Italian painter, the son of Pietro di Giovanni da Bruxelles. In 1599-1602, he made a pictorial record of all 14 Medici villas in lunette form for the third grand duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I. He moved to Carrara about 1580, where he married, and where later he returned and died.

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