Chianti Classico has inspired artists since Vasari and Leonardo da Vinci, who immortalized it and made it famous in the sixteenth century. Then, Vasari, the renowned biographer of the greatest painters and sculptors, sealed the duo art-Black Rooster, with his famous “Allegory” in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, in which Chianti is portrayed as an admirable old man carrying a shield on which a Black Rooster stands out.
Today, instead, contemporary art is offering a new interpretation of one of the most beautiful wine territories in the world (aiming at UNESCO recognition). A true “Open-air Museum”, hosting the works of the most well-known names in the art world among the vineyards and wineries, which is more and more becoming not only a wine but also an art district.
