the stucco artist, Giovan Martino Portogalli. Also employed were the Bolognese painters Anton Domenico and Giovan Filippo Giarré who executed the frescoed classical landscapes, vedute, in the salons on the ground and first floors. At the south west end, those parts of the villa dating from the 16th century were enlarged, incorporating the old 15th-century workers' house. The handsome main Facade to the north west is in the asymmetrical but austere Baroque classical style, which was the last word in urban taste but rare to find in florentine country houses. The south east facade overlooks a raised terrace with formal Italian garden, that conceal a complex of vast, barrel vault wine cellars. Stone steps lead down from the terrace to gently sloping gardens. Adjacent to the north east end of the villa, completing the picturesque scene, is the late 16th-century chapel. Designed on the classic central plan, it still has visible in the apse a fresco depicting Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. Its cupola has a roof of decorative terracotta scales. It would seem from the dedication plaque of Settimia Guadagni Baldocci found in the chapel that the elegant facade was added during the 18th-century enlargement. Bibliography P. Joshua Jacks, W. Caferro, The Spinelli of Florence, Penn State Univ. PR, 2001 E. Repetti, Dizionario geografico fisico storico della Toscana G. Carocci, Il Comune di San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Tipografia Minori Corrigendi, Firenze, 1892 A. Chiostrini Mannini, Tesori del Chianti, Firenze, 1977 M.A.Toscano, ARS L'archivio Vasari tra storia e cronaca, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2010 References Villas in Tuscany San Casciano in Val di Pesa Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan City of Florence