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Villa La Pietra

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Villa La Pietra is a Renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, Italy, originally built in the 1460s and given its present form, including a Baroque facade, in the seventeenth century under Cardinal Luigi Capponi, possibly with help from Carlo Fontana. It was later the home of the collector Arthur Acton and his son Harold Acton, who bequeathed the property to New York University on his death in 1994. The villa now houses NYU Florence and displays the Acton family's art collection for teaching. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Florence, Italy 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Villa La Pietra (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa La Pietra (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_La_Pietra, lead definition
    Villa La Pietra is a renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, in Tuscany, central Italy.
  • standing status determination
    The villa now houses NYU Florence and displays the Acton family's art collection for teaching.
  • In Style: Renaissance Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Renaissance
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2. Villa La Pietra (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q1129557, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Florence, Italy
    Wikidata item Q1129557, property P131/P17 (location): Florence, Italy
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Wikidata: Villa La Pietra
Wikidata Q1129557, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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