Palaces of Italy

Palace and villa entries in this atlas's Palaces and Aristocratic Residences subcategory whose subject stands in Italy, by a wide margin the largest single country of origin within this subcategory: 113 of 282 live members, reflecting how many Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque villas and palaces the papacy, the Medici and other Italian courts and merchant families built, and how thoroughly this atlas has individually catalogued Italy's aristocratic architecture down to minor Tuscan and Lombard villas. Belongs here: any palace, villa or aristocratic residence this atlas records as standing in Italy, from a Roman imperial villa through a Medici country house to a nineteenth century royal residence, whatever its present use as museum, government seat or private home. Does not belong here: a residence standing anywhere else in continental Europe, gathered instead under Palaces of Western Europe, even where its architecture drew directly on an Italian model.