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The Villa Medici is a patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of the villas built for the Medici family. It was built between 1451 and 1457. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.

References

^ Ondaatje, Michael (1992). The English Patient. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 56. ISBN 0679745203.

43°48′21.16″N 11°17′21.21″E / 43.8058778°N 11.2892250°E / 43.8058778; 11.2892250

[1] Ondaatje, Michael (1992). The English Patient. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 56. ISBN 0679745203.

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+{{Short description|Patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy}}
-[[Image:Villa Medici a Fiesole 1.jpg|thumb|Villa Medici in Fiesole.]]
+{{refimprove|date=May 2017}}
-[[Image:Villa medici a fiesole (dettaglio), dormitio virginis domenico ghirlandaio cappella tornabuoni SMN.jpg|thumb|The villa in the 15th century]]
+[[Image:Villa Medici a Fiesole 1.jpg|thumb|240px|Villa Medici in Fiesole, with neighboring [[Villa San Girolamo]] (upper right)]]
-The '''Villa Medici''' is a patrician villa in [[Fiesole]], [[Tuscany]], [[Italy]], the fourth oldest of the [[villa]]s built by the [[Medici]] family.  It was built between 1451 and 1457.
+[[Image:Villa medici a fiesole (dettaglio), dormitio virginis domenico ghirlandaio cappella tornabuoni SMN.jpg|thumb|The villa in the 15th century, depicted by [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] in the [[Tornabuoni Chapel]] of [[Santa Maria Novella]]|240px]]
+The '''Villa Medici''' is a patrician villa in [[Fiesole]], [[Tuscany]], Italy, the fourth oldest of the [[villa]]s built for the [[Medici]] family.  It was built between 1451 and 1457. It is part of the [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Site]] inscribed as  [[Medici villas|Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany]].
-==History==
+==See also==
+{{commons category|Villa Medici (Fiesole)}}
-The Villa Medici at Fiesole is one of the oldest Renaissance residences with a garden and is also one of the best preserved, but at the same time one of the least well known. While most of the villas dating back to the same period, such as [[Villa di Cafaggiolo|Cafaggiolo]] and [[Villa del Trebbio|Trebbio]], stand at the centre of agricultural concerns, Villa Medici had no connections at all with farming life.
+*[[Villa San Girolamo]], just above the Villa Medici
+*[[Medici villas]]
+*[[Italian Renaissance garden]]
+References:
-The villa was built during the mid 15th century when [[Cosimo de' Medici the Elder]] employed Michelozzo di Bartolomeo to design it for his second son, [[Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici|Giovanni]]. Intended to be a setting for intellectual life rather than a working Villa, Villa Medici was constructed to be a demonstration of aesthetic and ideological values. It owes its fame to [[Lorenzo il Magnifico]] who inherited the property in 1469 following the untimely death of his brother. The new master of the house turned the residence into a gathering place for artists, philosophers and men of letters such as [[Marsilio Ficino]], [[Pico della Mirandola]] and Angelo Ambrogini, known as [[Poliziano]]. The quadrangular building is a typical 15 C edifice, with square pietra serena windows and broad loggias looking out over the surroundings.
+In [[Michael Ondaatje]]'s 1992 novel ''[[The English Patient]]'', the titular character identifies the ruined convent in which the characters are staying as the Villa Bruscoli, or the Villa Medici in Fiesole.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The English Patient|last=Ondaatje|first=Michael|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1992|isbn=0679745203|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishpatientno0000onda/page/56 56]|url=https://archive.org/details/englishpatientno0000onda/page/56}}</ref>
-The villa remained the property of the Medici until 1671.
-==The Garden==
-The geographical position of the villa on gently sloping land suggested the layout of the garden on three terraces. The first of these, at the end of an avenue lined with cypress trees that runs underneath a holm-oak wood, has large rectangular lawns with potted lemon trees. The villa's piano nobile looks out onto this part of the garden. The second terrace is overlooked by the rear of the building and is reached by an indoor staircase. This, the least heavily altered part of the garden, has flower beds lined with box hedges with a large fountain in the centre, and is laid out in the shade of large magnolia trees. The third terrace, created between 1911 and 1923 by [[Cecil Pinsent]] and [[Geoffrey Scott]] <ref>He became (1918) second husband of the then owner [[Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart|Lady Sybil Cutting, later Scott]] who bought the villa after her first husband's death in 1910)</ref> is aligned longitudinally with the first, but is 11-12 m lower down. It is laid out in the Italian style, with a fine pergola positioned mid-way between the two levels. Lady Sybil's daughter and heiress, [[Iris Origo]], later employed Cecil Pinsent for the development of the garden at [http://www.montepulciano.net/la_foce_iris_origo.htm La Foce], her property in the Crete Senesi near [[Montepulciano]]<ref>[http://www.montepulciano.net/la_foce_iris_origo.htm La Foce] was acquired in 1924 after Iris Margaret Cutting (b. 1902) married Antonio Origo.</ref>.
-==See also==
-*[[Medici villas]]
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
+{{Medici}}
-==External links==
+{{Medici villas and gardens in Tuscany|state=collapsed}}
+{{Authority control}}
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-* [http://www.fiesole.com/villa_medici.htm  Villa Medici at Fiesole]
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-[[Category:Villas in Florence|Medici]]
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+[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1457]]
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+[[Category:Villas in Fiesole]]
+[[Category:Medici villas|Fiesole]]
+[[Category:Italian Renaissance gardens]]
+[[Category:Landscape design history]]
+[[Category:Gardens in Tuscany]]
+[[Category:1457 establishments in Europe]]
+[[Category:15th-century establishments in the Republic of Florence]]

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