Portrait, Medici Villa, Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy
Sacred Conversation, or The Medici as Holy Family, Mannerist painting, detail, 1575, by Giovanni Maria Butteri, 1540n"1606, with portraits of Cosimo I de Medici's family, in the Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, 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 forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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