Villa di Pratolino
by UTENS, Giusto, Oil on canvas
The villa was built by Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany in part to please his Venetian mistress, the celebrated Bianca Capello. The designer of villa and gardens was his court architect Bernardo Buontalenti, who completed it in a single campaign that lasted from 1569 to 1581. It was mostly demolished in 1820.