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Giusto Utens or Justus Utens (died 1609) was a Flemish painter who is remembered for the series of Medicean villas in lunette form that he painted for the third
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Giusto Utens or Justus Utens (died 1609) was a Flemish painter who is remembered for the series of Medicean villas in lunette form that he painted for the third Grand Duke of Tuscany
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, Ferdinando I, in 1599–1602.
He moved to Carrara
Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ...
about 1580, where he married, and where later he returned and died.
Medici villas
TheMedici villas
The Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes in Tuscany which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th century and the 17th century. The villas served several functions: they were the country palaces of the Medic ...
illustrated by Utens from a bird's-eye perspective are:
* Villa Medici del Trebbio
* Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo
*Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...
, the Boboli Gardens
The Boboli Gardens ( /’bo.bo.li/) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which l ...
and Fort Belvedere
* Villa Medici di Castello
* Villa Medici La Petraia
*Villa di Pratolino
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 from the main road to Bologna.
History
Th ...
* Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana
* Villa di Lappeggi
* Villa di Poggio a Caiano
* Villa di Serravezza
*Villa La Magia
Villa La Magia is a Medici villas, Medici villa in the comune of Quarrata, in the province of Pistoia, to the west of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It was built by the Panciatichi family in the fourteenth century, and was bought by Franc ...
* Villa Di Marignolle
* Villa di Montevettolini
* Villa di Colle Salvetti
The three missing lunettes are thought to be the Villa di Artimino and perhaps the Villa Medici di Careggi. In the early twentieth century an anonymous artist completed the scheme, based on eighteenth-century ''vedute
A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''.
Origins
This genre of landscape originated ...
'' illustrating the villa at Careggi, that at Cerreto Guidi and Villa del Poggio Imperiale, which in the sixteenth century was still the Villa di Poggio Baroncelli.
Location
Of the seventeen Utens paintings, fourteen have survived, and were displayed in the history museum ofFlorence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
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, the Museo di Firenze com'era
Museo di Firenze com'era ("Museum of Florence as it was") was a history and archaeology museum, one of the civic museums of the city of Florence.
The museum was located on Via dell'Oriuolo in a former convent of the Oblates. It closed permanentl ...
, until its closure in 2010. They were transferred in 2014 to a new permanent gallery at Petraia Villa Medici.
Lunettes of the Medicean villas
See also
* Villa Medici, FiesoleReferences
Further reading
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Utens, Giusto People from the Spanish Netherlands Immigrants to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany 16th-century Flemish painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 1609 deaths Year of birth unknown