Villa di Pratolino
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The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1822. Its remains are now part of the Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached f
Pratolino, the lower half of the garden, by Giusto Utens, 1599 (Museo Topografico, Florence)
The "Apennine Colossus" in its niche
The "Apennine Colossus" by Giambologna
The park and Villa Demidoff, which is the restored Paggeria of Villa di Pratolino.
Apennine Colossus
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The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Giambologna created the colossal figure, a personification of the
Villa di Pratolino
…maintain the park and open it for public use from April through October. The complicated iconography of the garden is embodied in the brooding statue of "Appennino", a colossal sculpture by Giambologna built in 1579–1580, which originally seemed to emerge from the vaulted rockwork niche that once surrounded him…
Upper chamber within the statue
Dragon at the back of the Colossus by Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna