Weapons, Medici Villa, Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy

First floor room with landscape wall paintings and displays of weaponry in cabinets, 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 Cabinets Caccia Cerreto Cosimo Davide Displays Forms Fortuni Guidi Habsburg-lorraines Medicea Medici Medicis Parigi Passed Remodelled Storico Territorio Toscana Weaponry

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