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    The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy. Built between 1506...
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    critics ascribe the design of the Villa Chigi in Rome, now known more commonly as the Villa Farnesina, to Peruzzi. In this villa, two wings branch off from a...
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    properties of the family, the Palazzo Farnese and the Villa Farnesina, both in Rome. The Villa Farnese is situated directly above the town of Caprarola...
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    completed around 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, one of...
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    1515 Marriage of Alexander and Roxana. Study for Villa Farnesina Red chalk study for the Villa Farnesina Three Graces Sheet with study for the Alba Madonna...
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    after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill")...
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  • Farnesina, the headquarters of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of the Republic of Italy Villa Farnesina, a Renaissance suburban villa in...
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    The Palazzo della Farnesina is an Italian government building located between Monte Mario and the Tiber River in the Foro Italico area in Rome, Italy...
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    modeled after a similar work by Raphael in the Loggia of Psyche in the Villa Farnesina. The hall connects with the loggia, and from there a stairway descends...
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    and the suburban villa known since 1579 as the Villa Farnesina, all of them intended to give substance to his legend. His splendid villa that he built on...
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    description of a now-lost Cupid and Psyche cycle at the Villa Belriguardo, near Ferrara. At the Villa Farnesina in Rome, it is one of two main scenes for the Loggia...
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    this room depicts the "Banquet of the Gods" and was copied from the Villa Farnesina. The Saloon, which occupies the centre of the north front, contains...
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    The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter...
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    Lungara, in Via della Lungara, seat of the botanical garden of Rome. Villa Farnesina, in Via della Lungara. Palazzo San Callisto, fronting Piazza Santa...
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    one of the most famous painters of Italy, created frescoes in the Villa Farnesina, the Raphael's Rooms, plus many other famous paintings. Michelangelo...
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    Peruzzi included a panel of The Rape of Ganymede in a ceiling at the Villa Farnesina, Rome, (c. 1509–1514), with Ganymede's long blond hair and girlish...
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    Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens in Rome, Italy, formerly belonging to the Torlonia family. It is entered from the via Nomentana. It...
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    the mythological ceiling mural painted by Raphael's workshop for the Villa Farnesina (the Loggia di Psiche, 1517–18). In a scene depicting a council of...
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    of the marbles, including the Venus, across the Tiber River to the Villa Farnesina. In 1786 the Bourbons decided to move the Venus Kallipygos to Naples...
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    The Villa Medici (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvilla ˈmɛːditʃi]) is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger...
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    Gagliardi at the Villa of Livia owned by Augustus' third and final wife, Livia Drusilla in Prima Porta. Livia had retired to the villa after Augustus's...
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    Nazionale dei Lincei, hosted in the Palazzo Corsini and neighboring Villa Farnesina. Romecity entry Official webpage of Palazzo Corsini Interactive Nolli...
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    of Fra Bartolommeo. Called again to Rome by Chigi, in the Villa Chigi (now the Villa Farnesina), working alongside Baldassarre Peruzzi, Sodoma painted subjects...
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  • Minister), the Palazzo Spada, the Palazzo della Cancelleria, and the Villa Farnesina. Rome is widely regarded as being the epicentre of Baroque architecture...
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    Roman period Polyphemus (1511) – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome The Metamorphosis (1511) – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1513–14...
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    Loggia di Psiche, ceiling fresco by Raffael and his school (The Council of The Gods), Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, by Alexander Z., 2006-01-02...
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    official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and the Tenuta di Castelporziano, an estate on the outskirts...
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    The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It was built by Pope Julius III in 1551–1553 on what was then the edge of the city. Today it is publicly owned...
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    incorporated into the adjacent villa belonging to the Chigi family, which the Farnese purchased in 1584 and renamed the Villa Farnesina. While the practicalities...
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    Vidoni-Caffarelli Palazzo del Viminale Palazzo Wedekind Palazzo Zuccari Villa Farnesina Villa Giulia Villa Madama Fountains Api Acqua Felice Acqua Paola Babuino Barcaccia...
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