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The cypress road is the postcard; the loggia is the detail. Framed in black wood and ready to hang, this original vintage-style print of the countryside around Pienza arrives finished — the arch, the balustrade and the long baluster shadows giving the golden hills a foreground worth standing in. A ready-made gift for anyone who has driven the Val d'Orcia, or is still planning to.
The design is drawn flat — viewed from a stone loggia, with a tall column and arch on the left and a sun-lit balustrade running across the foreground, its baluster shadows striping the terrace floor. Beyond it, two rows of dark cypresses line a pale S-curved road climbing golden harvested fields to a terracotta-roofed farmhouse, with layered blue-grey hills, a distant mountain and a tiny hilltop town with a bell tower on the far ridge under a pale blue sky fading to cream. PIENZA sits in the sky at the top with TUSCANY, ITALY beneath it between two thin rules, worked in gold, ochre, warm sand, terracotta, dark olive green and blue-grey. It is printed on 189 g/m² heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil thick — an uncoated stock that keeps the flat colour edges crisp without a hint of glare — and arrives framed in slim black ayous wood behind an acrylite front protector, with the hanging hardware already fitted.
- Sizes: 12″ × 18″, 18″ × 24″ and 24" × 36" portrait, supplied framed in black
- Paper: 189 g/m2 heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) thick, milled in Japan — uncoated, so no glare
- Frame: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) black ayous wood from renewable forests
- Front: acrylite protector in place of glass — lighter, and it does not shatter in transit
- Hanging hardware included — arrives ready to hang, no assembly
Size chart
| Framed size | Art panel | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 16" × 20" framed | 16 × 20 in | desk nooks, hallways, gallery walls, small spaces, gifting |
| 18" × 24" framed | 18 × 24 in (fills the frame) | above a sofa, a bed head or a console |
| 24" × 36" framed | 18 × 24 in | above a sofa, bed, or console, living rooms, statement walls |
The illustration fills the 16″ × 20″ frame edge to edge and sits centred with a slim paper margin on the 18″ × 24″. Framed pieces ship flat and boxed, and travel separately from any rolled posters in the same order.
Quick answers
Does it come framed, and in what sizes?
Yes — 12″ × 18″, 18″ × 24″, or 24″ × 36″ portrait, in a black ayous wood frame, 0.75″ (1.9 cm) thick, with an acrylite front protector and the hanging hardware already fitted. It arrives ready to hang.
Which size should I choose?
The 12″ × 18″ works well for desk nooks, hallways, gallery walls, and gifting. The 18″ × 24″ is a versatile choice above a sofa, bed, or console. The 24″ × 36″ creates more impact in living rooms, above larger furniture, or as a statement wall piece.
Is this a reprint of a vintage original?
No. It is an original illustration drawn in the mid-century travel-poster tradition — flat colour, clean edges, bold lettering — and a new composition made for RaZits. It is not a scan of a historic print.
Is the cypress-lined road to a farmhouse a real Pienza view?
Yes — the countryside around Pienza is the Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape known for exactly this: winding dirt roads lined with cypresses leading to isolated stone farmhouses across rolling wheat fields. Pienza itself is a Renaissance hilltop town, rebuilt between 1459 and 1462 by Pope Pius II as an ""ideal city"", and its southern terraces look out over these hills towards Monte Amiata.
The Val d'Orcia from the terrace, at the hour it turns to gold.
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