Villa Farnesina was built between 1508 and 1511 to a design by Baldassare Peruzzi as a pleasure palace and holiday home for the fabulously rich papal banker Agostino Chigi. Treasurer to Pope Julius II ...

Diagnostic investigations and research conducted in recent years at Villa Farnesina by the National Academy of Lincei have provided new elements to reconstruct the history of the Villa Farnesina and a ...

View of a section of a series of frescoes discovered during works at Rome's Villa Farnesina. Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by hues of blue, red and gold have lost ...

Rome (AFP) – Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes discovered behind a false ceiling at the Villa Farnesina palace in ...

From 2019 to 2021, Villa Farnesina has been the exhibition venue for three major interconnected exhibitions to celebrate Leonardo, Raphael, and Dante - the artists of "The Triptych of Italian Genius".

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This elegant villa in Trastevere was the home of the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, who was also the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Chigi was one of the richest men in Rome, which meant that he could ...

It began as a routine check of some cables in the Renaissance Villa Farnesina in Rome... But what electrician Davide Renzoni uncovered when he opened a ceiling trapdoor was nothing short of ...