STILE LIBERTY IN TOSCANA
This article examines the features of the Liberty style in Tuscany using the examples of the works of architects Giovanni Michelazzi in Florence and Gaetano Orzali in Lucca, as well as an analysis of decorative painting and architectural ceramics of the artist Galileo Chini. This vector of research of the Italian Liberty is poorly studied in the domestic art history science, however, it is of undoubted interest in the context of the study of the Liberty style in Italy in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. It was found out that the spread of Liberty in Tuscany was not hasty and took place due to the Tuscan artistic tradition and the desire to update in line with modern European aesthetic ideas. Dedicated craftsmen simultaneously preserved local tradition and brought elements of free interpretation and a new understanding of beauty into the decoration of exteriors and interiors.