Villa Medici
Rome, Italy
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Villa Medici is a sixteenth-century Mannerist villa and architectural complex on the Pincian Hill beside Trinità dei Monti in central Rome, set within a 7-hectare Italian garden. Its architects were Annibale Lippi, Nanni di Baccio Bigio and Bartolomeo Ammannati. Founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, it is now property of the French State and has housed the French Academy in Rome, welcoming winners of the Prix de Rome since 1803.
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- Type
- villa, creative residency
- Place
- Rome, Italy
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