Palazzo Capponi-Barocchi
Subtitle: from the Agli to the Barocchi through Six Centuries
By: Brenda Preyer ; with an introductory article by Caroline Elam and Brenda Preyer
Contributors: Elam, Caroline, 1945-
Publisher: SPES: Studio Per Edizioni Scelte
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Florence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9788872423431
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Buildings, structures; Palazzo Capponi-Barocchi (Florence, Italy)
Other titles: From the Agli to the Barocchi through Six Centuries
Description: The book traces the history of the palace that houses the publishing house S.P.E.S., treating the location and changes in attitude towards the river, the various families (Bartolomeo Ammannati-Laura Battiferra -a member of the Vettori family, intill the Barocchi family that bought the palace in 1921) who lived in the palace, the architecture and the development of the plan, the use through the centuries of the spaces of the interior.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: The setting: between the new street and the river; title: Bernaba degli Agli in Frescobaldi, and Capponi, Territory; title: Niccolò Capponi of the Charmed Life; title: The dream of Bartolomeo Ammannati and Laura Battiferra?; title: The Minucci, from Volterra to Florence, and back again; title: A second neighborhood family, the Vettori, in the palace for 150 years; title: Another artist living, and also teaching, in the palace, then the decline; title: Living in the palace, and more about the interior; title: The Barocchi Salvi Renascence.