Beyond Renaissance in Florence - Il Villino Broggi - Caraceni, an Art Nouveau masterpiece

Built in 1911 by the architect Giovanni Michelazzi (1879 - 1920), it is considered one of the most significant Italian Art Nouveau buildings, certainly the most interesting in Florence. Michelazzi was a very refined architect, even if unfortunately he designed very few works, committing suicide in 1920 at the age of 41. His style is characterized by very fine elaborations of the wall surfaces consisting of pictorial and stucco decorations, polychrome windows, wrought iron, artificial stone, crystal and ceramics. For the ceramics, the workshop of Galileo Chini (1973 - 1956), one of the most important artists of the time, was commissioned. An internal skylight decorated with the unusual figure of a large spider weaving the web is very particular and quoted. Below detail of the central window. Florence, via Scipione Ammirato 97.