Villa Farnesina

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Villa Farnesina

Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
villa

Villa

A villa was originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman Republic times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably....
in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere

Trastevere

Trastevere is Rioni of Rome XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally "beyond the Tiber"....
in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
.

The villa was built for Agostino Chigi

Agostino Chigi

Agostino Andrea Chigi was an Italy banker and patron of the Renaissance.Born in Siena, he was the son of the prominent banker Mariano Chigi, a member of an ancient and illustrious house....
, a rich Sienese

Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site....
banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II , nicknamed Il Papa Terribile , was born Giuliano della Rovere. He was Pope from 1503 to 1513. His reign was marked by an aggressive foreign policy, ambitious building projects, and patronage for the arts....
. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by Giuliano da Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italy sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger were architec...
, designed and erected the villa.

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Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
villa

Villa

Trastevere

Trastevere is Rioni of Rome XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally "beyond the Tiber"....
in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
.

The villa was built for Agostino Chigi

Agostino Chigi

Siena

Pope Julius II

Giuliano da Sangallo

Palazzo

Palazzo can be:*Palazzo, an Italian type of building*part of a commune name, for example:**Palazzo Adriano, a commune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy...
(palace). Renaissance palaces were decorated versions of defensive castles: rectangular blocks with rusticated ground floors and enclosing a courtyard. This villa, meant to be a summer pavilion, was airy and the rear wings open to a garden towards the river. Initially, the entrance loggia was open; luckily for the frescoes therein, it now is enclosed.

Chigi also commissioned the fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
decoration of the loggias, by artists such as Raphael

Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
, Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo , byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italy Renaissance-Mannerism painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school....
, Giulio Romano

Giulio Romano

Giulio Romano was an Italy Painting and Architecture. A prominent pupil of Raffaello Santi, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism....
, and Il Sodoma

Il Sodoma

Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italy Mannerism Painting Giovanni Antonio Bazzi Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese School; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome....
. The themes were inspired by the Stanze of the poet Angelo Poliziano, a key member of the circle of Lorenzo de Medici. Best known are Raphael's frescoes in the Loggia depicting the classical and secular myths of Love and Psyche

Psyche

Psyche may refer to:Astronomy*16 Psyche, an asteroidComputers and software*Psyche, a code name for Red Hat Linux 8.0Fiction...
, and The Triumph of Galatea
Galatea (Raphael)

The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco masterpiece completed in 1512 by the Italy painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome.The Farnesina was built for the Siena banker Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age....
. This, one of his few purely secular paintings, shows a near-naked nymph on a shell-shaped chariot amid frolicking servants and is reminiscent of Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ....
's Venus. Additional trompe-l'œil frescoes were contributed by Peruzzi himself.

The villa became the property of the Farnese

Farnese

The Farnese family was an influential family in Renaissance Italy.Its most important members include Pope Paul III and the Duke of Parma of Parma....
family in 1577 (hence the name of Farnesina), and later belonged to the Bourbon of Naples and in 1861 to the Spanish Ambassador

Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents their country. They are usually accredited to a Sovereignty or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of their country....
in Rome. Today, owned by the Italian State, it hosts the Accademia dei Lincei

Accademia dei Lincei

The Accademia dei Lincei, , is an italy science academy, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy.Founded in 1603 by Federico Cesi, it was the first academy of sciences to persist in Italy, and a locus for the incipient scientific revolution....
, a long-standing and renowned Roman academy of sciences, and the Roman Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (print room

Print Room

The Print Room at Windsor Castle is a print room which is an office in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom....
or Department for Drawings and Prints). Some claim that the Farnese once contemplated linking their two palaces across each other on the Tiber with a private bridge.

The Palazzo and Loggia are open to visitors (see ).

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— The bracket-shaped building southwest (lower) of the Tiber, in the centre of photo, is the Villa Farnesina. The Palazzo Farnese is the massive almost square, courtyarded structure to the North of the Tiber.

Villa Farnesina

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