Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits.
The province of Lucca is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca.
The Bargello, also known as the Palazzo del Bargello or Palazzo del Popolo, is a former barracks and prison in Florence, Italy. Since 1865, it has housed the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, a national art museum.
The National Roman Museum is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. It shows exhibits from the pre- and early history of Rome, with a focus on archaeological findings from the period of Ancient Rome.
Museo Galileo is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, is housed in Palazzo Castellani, an 11th-century building which was then known as the Castello d'Altafronte.
Aristodemo Costoli (1803–1871) was an Italian sculptor who spent his entire career in the city of Florence. He is also known for attempting in 1843 to clean and conserve the famed Renaissance-era sculpture David by Michelangelo; unfortunately his hydrochloric acid cleaning solution removed the stone's waxy protective coating and left the surface pitted and porous. His students included Emilio Zocchi, Girolamo Masini, Augusto Rivalta and his son Leopoldo Costoli.
The Royal Palace of Capodimonte is a large palazzo in Naples, Italy. It was formerly the summer residence and hunting lodge of the Bourbon kings of the Two Sicilies, one of the two royal palaces in Naples. Today, it comprises the National Museum of Capodimonte and the Royal Forest. The palace was constructed on its somewhat cooler hilltop location just outside the city, with urban Naples ultimately expanding around it.
The Ducal Palace is a palace in Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy.
Palazzo Tucci is an 18th-century palace in central Lucca, Region of Tuscany, Italy.
The Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi is one of the two main art museum hosting tapestry collections and mainly post-19th century art collections owned by the city of Lucca, Italy. The collection is displayed in the Baroque palace, formerly belonging to the Mansi family, and located in central Lucca. Many of the original room decorations remain in place.
The Polo Museale del Lazio is an office of Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Its seat is in Rome in the Palazzo Venezia.
The Casino Mediceo di San Marco is a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style palace located on Via Cavour number 57 and via San Gallo in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
The Master of Borsigliana, also known as Pietro da Talada was an Italian painter active in the Garfagnana, the mountainous corner of modern Tuscany, located north-east of Lucca.
The Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia is a state museum in Rome (Italy), housed in the palace of the same name together with the important Library of Archaeology and Art History.
Battista di Gerio was an Italian painter, active in a Gothic style in Pisa and Lucca. Among the works known are a triptych for the Pieve di Santo Stefano in Camaiore, province of Lucca. The triptych (1417) for the church of San Quirico all'Olivo of Lucca is now separated with the three pieces split among the Philadelphia Museum of Art ; the Petit Palais of Avignon ; and the Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi in Lucca.
