Il grandluca e il giardiniere. L'opera di Joseph Fritsch nelle ville dei granduchi di Toscana Ferdinando III e Leopoldo II

• Autores: Petra Brezacková
• Localización: Commentari d'arte: rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, Vol. 20, Nº. 58-59, 2014, págs. 93-110
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The grand-duke and the gardener. The work of Joseph Fritsch in the villas of the grand-dukes of Tuscany, Ferdinand III and Leopolod II.

    This article is the result of a painstaking archival investigation carried out in Italy, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. It offers an in-depth examination of Joseph Fritsch (1774-1867), "artist and gardener" to the Grand dukes Ferdinand III and Leopold II. The author analyses a series of descriptive and iconographic documents (often unpublished) that enable her to trace Fritsch's career before being "summoned" to Toscany, investigating his esrly years of training in Vlasim (at the court of the Auersperg princes) and the commissions for English-style parks for the Bohemian estates of the Grand-dukes of Tuscany in Ploskovice and Bustehrad. What emerges is a very valuable historic and archival overview, useful in understanding both this Bohemian gardener's relationship with Grand-duke Ferdinand III, and in analysing the evolution of the landscape in some of the most significant historic parks and gardens in Tuscany (Pratolino, Petraia, Castello, Pitti).