Maids Parlour Room, Medici Villa, Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany

Maids Parlour Room, with frescoes, beside the Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1555-75 Alfonso Bernardo Buontalenti Caccia Cerreto Cosimo Davide Forms Fortuni Frescoes Guidi Habsburg-lorraines Isabella Medicea Medici Medicis Parigi Parlour Passed Remodelled Sala Storico Territorio Toscana Trompe

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