This Pienza poster puts you on a stone loggia at golden hour, looking out over the Val d'Orcia to a double row of cypresses walking a pale winding road up to a lone farmhouse, with a small hilltop town and its bell tower on the far ridge. An original vintage-style travel poster of the countryside around Pienza — Tuscany wall art that shows why people drive out here in the first place.
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. Printed to order on heavyweight matte art paper with a smooth, uncoated surface that keeps those hard colour edges crisp and readable from across the room. No glare, no plastic sheen, no photograph: just paper and ink.
- Paper: 189 g/m2 (10.3 mil) heavyweight matte art stock — substantial enough to hang unframed without curling
- Finish: uncoated matte — no glare under lamps, windows or gallery lighting
- Opacity: 94%, so a wall colour or a second sheet behind it never shows through
- Brightness: 104% ISO — a bright white base that keeps the flat colour blocks saturated
- Origin: paper milled in Japan; every poster is printed to order, never warehoused
Size chart
| Poster size | Art panel (centred) | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 12"" × 18"" | 12 × 15 in | desk shelves, small nooks, gallery-wall filler |
| 18"" × 24"" | 18 × 22.5 in | bedrooms, home offices, above a console or sofa |
| 24"" × 36"" | 24 × 30 in | living rooms, stairwells, a single statement wall |
The illustration is a 4:5 panel centred on the sheet with an even margin above and below, so it sits well in an off-the-shelf frame with or without a mat. Ships rolled in a protective tube, unframed.
Quick answers
Which size should I order? The 18″ × 24″ is the safe default for most walls. Take the 12″ × 18″ for a desk, a shelf or as part of a gallery cluster, and the 24″ × 36″ when the poster is meant to be the focal point of the room.
Does it come framed? No — it ships rolled and unframed in a protective tube. All three sizes are standard US frame sizes, so a shop-bought frame fits without a custom mat. A ready-to-hang framed version of this design is listed separately.
Is this a reprint of an old travel poster? 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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