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Farnesina (färnāzē`nä), villa in Rome, Italy, built (1508–11) by Peruzzi Peruzzi, Baldassare , 1481–1536, Italian architect and painter of the High Renaissance and mannerist periods. His outstanding architectural works are the Villa Farnesina (c.1505–c.1511) and the Palazzo Massimi (c.1535) in Rome.
..... Click the link for more information. for the banker Agostino Chigi at the foot of the Janiculum on the right bank of the Tiber. One of the finest examples of Italian Renaissance architecture, it is famous for its frescoes by Raphael and his pupils. It was long the residence of the Farnese family.

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See P. d'Ancona, The Farnesina Frescoes at Rome (1955).

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