entrance park
it built lorenzo de medici after buying rustic farm giovanni rucellai, in turn had bought simple fortress palla strozzi, built cancellieri family of pistoia @ beginning of fifteenth century.
after period of intensive land acquisition medici family, in area of poggio caiano , on other bank of ombrone river, @ tavola, between 1470 , 1474, lorenzo commissioned giuliano da sangallo build villa became prototype of country s noble residences in following centuries. in fact, lorenzo, through favorite architect, among first conceive of agrarian space in territory ordered , shaped according requirements of harmony. @ time began set idea of villa-fortress (like medici villa of careggi, more castle made thirty years ago michelozzo cosimo elder, grandfather of lorenzo). new aptitude due political issues, period of peace , stability reached lorenzo s politics, , philosophical, according humanists.
among innovations of era, porch placed on ground floor (almost interconnected area between surrounding landscape , villa), classic porch , pediment on noble floor , lack of central courtyard. gradually villa enriched works in continuum between architecture, painting , sculpture. fresco of filippino lippi dates period under loggia on first floor , perhaps glazed majolica pediment attributed andrea sansovino (some historians refer second constructive step).
giuliano da sangallo building within estate: square , bastioned structure @ central court, called cascine located on other shore of umbrella , which, center of agricultural activity, built before villa, ideal counterweight in overall territorial design.
at death of lorenzo in 1492 work @ villa still largely unfinished , halted between 1495 , 1513 because of exile of medici florence. villa complete third, base (ttura) complete porch , floor planks on first floor of vault of vault had cover central salon.
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