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Giusto Utens or Justus Utens (died 1609) was a Flemish painter who is remembered for the series of Medicean villas in lunette form that he painted for the third grand duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I, in 1599–1602.[1]
He moved to Carrara about 1580, where he married, and where later he returned and died.
Medici villas
The Medici villas illustrated by Utens from a bird's-eye perspective are:
- Villa Medici del Trebbio
- Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo
- Palazzo Pitti, the Boboli Gardens and Fort Belvedere
- Villa Medici di Castello
- Villa Medici La Petraia
- Villa di Pratolino
- Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana
- Villa di Lappeggi
- Villa di Poggio a Caiano
- Villa di Serravezza
- Villa La Magia
- Villa Di Marignolle
- Villa di Montevettolini
- Villa di Colle Salvetti
The three missing lunettes are thought to be the Villa di Artimino and perhaps the Villa Medici di Careggi. In the early twentieth century an anonymous artist completed the scheme, based on eighteenth-century vedute illustrating the villa at Careggi, that at Cerreto Guidi and Villa del Poggio Imperiale, which in the sixteenth century was still the Villa di Poggio Baroncelli.
Location
Of the seventeen Utens paintings, fourteen have survived, and were displayed in the history museum of Florence, the Museo di Firenze com'era, until its closure in 2010. They were transferred in 2014 to a new permanent gallery at Petraia Villa Medici.[2]
Lunettes of the Medicean villas
Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens 
Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana 
Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo 
Villa di Castello 
Villa La Magia 
Villa La Petraia 
Villa di Lappeggi 
Villa di Pratolino 
Villa del Trebbio 
Villa di Colle Salvetti 
Villa di Poggio a Caiano 
Villa di Marignolle 
Villa di Montevettolini 
Villa di Seravezza
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See also
References
- ^ Mignani, Daniela (1995) [1991]. The Medicean Villas by Giusto Utens (2nd ed.). Florence: Arnaud. ISBN 88-8015-000-6.
- ^ Giusto Utens Lunettes in Petraia Villa Medici
Further reading
- Ballerini, Isabella. (2003). The Medici Villas: The Complete Guide. Florence: Giunti. ISBN 978-88-09-02995-8.