Villa Farnesina

This was definitely worth a visit both for the fact that the Chigi and Farnese names come up repeatedly (eg chapels financed in churches by wealthy families) and it is the first of many impressively decorated and art filled places we are to see. In fact, by the end, seeing ruins and one amazing sculpture or painting after another almost became commonplace. One begins to recognize the perspective and refinement of the 1500-1600 Renaissance artists and the "big names": Caravaggio with his use of light and dark, Raphael with his flowing style, Bernini, the prolific sculptor and Michelangelo, the "jack of all trades".

This grand villa was built and decorated in the 1500s by Agostino Chigi who was a successful Vienese banker, then bought by a cardinal in the 1600s, renovated by the Ambassador of Spain in the 1800s and has since been owned by the Italian State. It has beautiful inlaid marble floors, painted scenes on the ceilings, walls by famous painters of the Rennaissance and a lovely garden.

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