Villa Farnesina

Villa Farnesina

Infobox Historic building
name = Villa Farnesina



caption = Villa Farnesina in Trastevere
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latitude = 41.893611
longitude = 12.4675
location_town = Rome, Trastevere
location_country = Italy
architect =
client = Agostino Chigi
engineer =
construction_start_date= 1506
completion_date = 1510
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Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in Rome.

The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 15061510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by Giuliano da Sangallo, designed and erected the villa. The novelty of the villa design can be discerned from its differences from that of a typical urban palazzo (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 decoration of the loggias, by artists such as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano, and Il Sodoma. 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, and "The Triumph of Galatea". 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's "Venus". Additional trompe-l'œil frescoes were contributed by Peruzzi himself.

The villa became the property of the Farnese family in 1577 (hence the name of Farnesina), and later belonged to the Bourbon of Naples and in 1861 to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome. Today, owned by the Italian State, it hosts the Accademia dei Lincei, a long-standing and renowned Roman academy of sciences, and the Roman Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (print room 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 [http://www.lincei.it/informazioni/villafarnesina/index.php?lg=e&PHPSESSID=df127de417986fe387aa9a558eb6c358&PHPSESSID=df127de417986fe387aa9a558eb6c358] ).

ee also

*Galatea (Raphael)

References

*cite book | first= Peter|last= Murray| year=1963| title= The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance| pages=pp. 151-153| publisher= Schocken Books|location= New York


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* [http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/CP/loggia.html Loggia di Psiche by Raphael]
* [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/farnesina/farnesina.html Street Facade and Frescoes]
* [http://www.abcroma.com/Monumento_i.asp?N=25 Garden Facade]
* [http://www.vitruvio.ch/arc/renaissance/italy/villafarnesina.php Architecture]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+via+del+corso,+rome&ll=41.893509,12.467090&spn=0.003642,0.007339&t=k&hl=en Satellite photo] — 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.


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