Palazzo Lanfranchi-Toscanelli

Last updated April 30, 2019

The Palazzo Lanfranchi-Toscanelli, presently the local State Archives, is a Renaissance-style palace located on Lungarno Mediceo #30, in the city of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. Since 1913 the building has housed the Archivio di Stato di Pisa.

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 14th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact.

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city of over 91,104 residents contains more than 20 other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and various bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.

Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence (Firenze).

History

Initially commissioned in the first half of the 16th century by Bartolomeo Lanfranchi. Some authors state that the architect was Michelangelo.^[1] A later Palazzo Lanfranchi commissioned by Alessandro stands across the Arno. In 1576, the palace was refurbished using designs by Francesco Mosca.

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The recently enriched mercantile Toscanelli family acquired the palace in 1827; and restored it using the architect Alessandro Gherardesca. Giovan Battista Toscanelli and his wife Angiola Cipriani lived in the palace, and garnered a large and prominent art collection.^[2] Among the artists in the painting gallery were Cornelis Bloemaert, Agnolo Bronzino, Pietro Ciafferi, Jacques Courtois, Carlo Dolci, Francesco Fidanza, Károly Markó the Younger, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, and Piero Zuccheri.^[3] Among the artists employed in decoration of the rooms of the palace in the 1830s were Giuseppe Bacchini, Luigi Venturini, and Benvenuto Brazzini.^[4] The palace, once had a peculiar Mannerist marble sculpture, part of a fountain, that displayed a chimeric female figure extruding bare breasts, but possessing wings, fins for feet, and a long tail. She sits atop a frog. The statue has been attributed to either Michelangelo or one of his followers, Silvio Cosini or Niccolo Tribolo.^[5] The statue is now in Palazzo Blu in town.

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Pietro Ciafferi or Ciaffero, called Lo Smargiasso, was born at Pisa about 1600, and flourished, according to Lanzi, till at least the year 1654. He belongs to the Florentine school, and painted marine subjects and seaports, which his residence at Livorno enabled him to study from nature. His pictures are highly finished, and ornamented with small figures correctly drawn. He also painted architectural and perspective views, and sacred subjects. His works are principally at Pisa and Livorno. An 'Ecce Homo' by him is in the Pitti Palace, Florence.

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Lord Byron and Poetry^[6]
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References

↑ Le dimore di Pisa: l'arte di abitare i palazzi di una antica repubblica, Article title: Il Palazzo Toscanelli di Pisa nel XIX Secolo:Note e Documenti Inediti sugli Arredi e sulla Quadreria, by Barbara Bertelli, Universita di Udine, edited by Emilia Daniele, page 227.
↑ Tourism office of Pisa, itineraries, text curated by A. Sobrero and M. Zampetti of the Pisan Historic Society (last revision 18/06/2013).
↑ Michelangelo is rumored to have been the architect of the palace. see B Bertelli, page 228-232.
↑ See B Bertelli, page 233.
↑ The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, by Cristina Acidini Luchinat, Palazzo Strozzi, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, page 228.
↑ Byron is said to have been a guest in the palace. see B Bertelli, page 227.

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[1] Le dimore di Pisa: l'arte di abitare i palazzi di una antica repubblica, Article title: Il Palazzo Toscanelli di Pisa nel XIX Secolo:Note e Documenti Inediti sugli Arredi e sulla Quadreria, by Barbara Bertelli, Universita di Udine, edited by Emilia Daniele, page 227.

[2] Tourism office of Pisa, itineraries, text curated by A. Sobrero and M. Zampetti of the Pisan Historic Society (last revision 18/06/2013).

[3] Michelangelo is rumored to have been the architect of the palace. see B Bertelli, page 228-232.

[4] See B Bertelli, page 233.

[5] The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, by Cristina Acidini Luchinat, Palazzo Strozzi, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, page 228.

[6] Byron is said to have been a guest in the palace. see B Bertelli, page 227.