Sala Isabella, Medici Villa, Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy

Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, with red 4 poster bed and painted wallpaper, 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. On the right is the painting Sacred Conversation, or The Medici as Holy Family, painting, 1575, by Giovanni Maria Butteri, 1540n"1606, with portraits of Cosimo I de Medici's family. 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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