Houses and villas Tuscany Italy

Houses and villas Tuscany Italy Villa Elena: welcome
Maximum architect Tuscan of the sec. XVII was Gherardo Silvani, author of various buildings and churches in Florence; worthy of mention also G. Paris, M. Nigetti, G. B. Foggini. In the Seven hundred emerged the personality of F. Ruggeri, hard-working in the church of S. Florence, one among the best Baroque constructions in Tuscany. The greatest contribution of the Tuscan six-eighteenth-century architecture was given from the numerous and sumptuous shed villas in the countries however, kind of the outskirts in Florence. Also the sculpture weakly heard again some Roman influences. Near to the style of the Giambologna they were P. Nick and G. B. Caccini, while G. B. Foggini soberly interpreted the ways berniniani. Among the sculptors of the Seven hundred one worthy of mention G. He/she swaps and I. Spinazzi. The greatest painters of the sec. XVII, of regional circle substantially they were D. Passignano, the Creaking (next to the Baroque ones), F. Furini, the Volterrano etc. Of elevated quality the art of the two caravaggistis pisani, O. Gentileschi and To. Gentileschi. Altogether modest the painting of the sec. XVIII. On to end some sec. XVIII also spread in Tuscany the neoclassic ways, that in architecture the best interpreters found in G. Paoletti, G. Cacialli and P. Poccianti. Painters what P. Welcome and L. Sabatellis alternated heavy decorative complexes to more balanced compositions. In the eight hundred an architecture of specific Tuscan characterization went disappearing. Greatest personalities were had in the field of the sculpture (L. Bartolini, To. Cecioni, G. Dupré), while the activity of the "macchiaioli" (G. Factors, S. League, T. Signorini) he/she again conferred to the region a role of prestige within the European artistic culture. In the sec. XX he can still speak of art "Tuscan", speaking of artists as O. Rosebushes and To. Soft, whose work nevertheless it reenters more among the you adjourn expressions of the international culture. Notable examples of modern architecture are found above all in Florence (town stadium of P. L. Nerves, Station of S. Maria Novella, Box of Saving of G. Michelucci).
A complex of beliefs and superstitions survive in the region, you testify, for example, from numerous proverbs that foresee the good one or the bad fate prognosticated through the interpretation, according to traditional schemes, of natural facts or straight banal, or from the sporadic survival of fit rites to discover and to exorcize the hex. Popular literature is rich of fables and legends that, beginning from the sec. XIX, has found in studious as G. Pitré, V. Imbriani, I. Nieri and G. Nerucci makes an attempt collectors and illustrators.
Among the diffused tied up parties to the cycle of the year they were to Calendimaggio the celebrations inspired to the spring: the evening of the eve intrigued of boys and girls (maggiaiuoli) they went to the houses of the engaged girls and they received gifts: Mays had called the songs tuned up by the party, maio the tasseled fresh branch brought by a youth that it preceded the others, while you are coppering smaller you/they were offered to the most beautiful girls. They also existed lyric Mays that have given representations origin dramatic, to them it turns calls Mays, that came with the time moved to other seasons and that they constituted and they still constitute the representation dramatic more main point of the region.