Palazzo Tucci

Last updated April 30, 2019

Palazzo Tucci is an 18th-century palace in central Lucca, Region of Tuscany, Italy.

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio, in a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital of the Province of Lucca. It is famous for its intact Renaissance-era city walls.

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).

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Italian Alps and surrounded by several islands. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and traversed along its length by the Apennines, Italy has a largely temperate seasonal climate. The country covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and shares open land borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.

History

A number of medieval houses at this site were linked by the ownership of the Tucci family, and in 1780, with the marriage of Giuseppe Tucci to the daughter of the aristocrat Giuseppe Guinigi, the former commissioned a reconstruction by Ottaviano Diodati.^[1] The façade style transitions from late Baroque architecture to Neoclassicism. The portal has the coat of arms of the family. The erudite Diodati who was active in theater and garden design, added decorative and dramatic effects to the interior and exterior, including the entrance stairwell.^[2] Rooms have the somewhat restrained stucco decoration of the period. The main room has a ceiling frescoed with Flora and the Four Seasons. This and other canvases were mainly by Giovanni Domenico Paladini.

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. Common features of Baroque architecture included gigantism of proportions; a large open central space where everyone could see the altar; twisting columns, theatrical effects, including light coming from a cupola above; dramatic interior effects created with bronze and gilding; clusters of sculpted angels and other figures high overhead; and an extensive use of trompe-l'oeil, also called "quadratura," with painted architectural details and figures on the walls and ceiling, to increase the dramatic and theatrical effect.

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

Giovanni Domenico Paladini was an Italian painter.

The palace is still owned by the Tucci family and houses a small hotel. The musician Alfredo Catalani was born in this palace.^[3]

Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 cult movie Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful.

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References

↑ Le dimore di Lucca: l'arte di abitare i palazzi di una capitale dal Medioevo allo Stato Unitario, edited by Emilia Daniele, (2007)pages 50-52.
↑ Villa Garzoni, Pescia Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine ., gardens by Diodati.
↑ Official website for Palazzo Tucci.

Coordinates: 43°50′41.10″N10°30′10.40″E / 43.8447500°N 10.5028889°E / 43.8447500; 10.5028889

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[1] Le dimore di Lucca: l'arte di abitare i palazzi di una capitale dal Medioevo allo Stato Unitario, edited by Emilia Daniele, (2007)pages 50-52.

[2] Villa Garzoni, Pescia Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine ., gardens by Diodati.

[3] Official website for Palazzo Tucci.