Introduction
Frederick Stibbert is son of an English family
becomes rich with the railroads in mother native land and as many
English of the 800 are in love of Florence. Many of they live in
city, bloomed, beautiful and rich of art. Now dirty, it is
bloomed badly is not held but always rich of art when available, but
this is an other history. Stibbert is mecenate loving of the
history of the war and begins to collezionare mainly coming from
amature, guns, swords from three distinguished areas: Europe,
the world Muslim and Japan. The countries more evoluti in the
art of the war and the construction of deadly crews.
It buys a villa belonged to
the Davanzati
family,
it restructures it completely and to the outside it creates a park of
four hectares subdivided in thematic areas according to the taste of
the age
The
Museum
Devided
in three main sections in which there are pictures, ceramics, chinas,
customs, mobilio, bronzetti and medals oltking clearly to
crews and armors all to represent the evolutions and the search of th
e
best in the art of the war. Particularly beautiful it knows them
to them of the raid by horseback where mockups on horses and dismount
to you cover armors originate giving them to life to one "real photo"
of guerrieri of the XV-XVI century. The garden in English style,
passes from the surrounding forests with vialetti, calm points of
sight and angles. The greater part of the trees to high stalk is
lecci, ippocastani, pines and tigli with some cypress. Some
trees are antecedent to the construction of the garden. In an
artificial small lake an Egyptian with "romantico" taste is gained
tempietto in style. To the dead women of the magante, all he was
donated to the city that could some have use of the coming from
citizens and visitors from every continent. Fairies very
attention, all the collection is composed from very 50,000 pieces and
renders this private, only museum to the world.
Absolutely not to lose!
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