Tuscan architecture
That of the ancient Etruscans. 2. That of modern Tuscany at any epoch, especially any style taking shape in this region and not extending much beyond it. The most important of such styles is the round-arched Gothic, exemplified by the Loggia dei Lanzi and the Bargello, or Palace of the Podesta, both in Florence, and the Cathedral of Lucca, and other buildings; a style which was mainly Gothic in structure with its system of building received from the north, but which protested against the northern style as a decorative system. (Jones, 1992)