Villa Farnesina Villa in Renaissance style in the Trastevere district. The building was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich banker from Siena and the Treasurer of Pope Julius II. Above the Villa project in 1506-1510, he worked as the master of Siena Baldassarre Peruzzi, a pupil of Bramante. He also supervised the construction work. The design of this rustic Villa is very different from the design of typical urban Palazzo. The latter, as a rule, were facing towards the street and it looked like the locks - rectangular blocks of the first floor, lined with stone, and patio. Villa Farnesina was supposed to be a spacious summer residence: the architect has given it a U-shape with a loggia with five spans between the side wings. Originally the main entrance to the building was carried out through the loggia, which was opened, today it is glazed, and visitors can get inside the South side.

The decoration of the Villa Farnesina was entrusted to artists such as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano and Il Sodoma. In creating their murals, they were inspired by the works of the poet Angelo Poliziano. On the ground floor preserved fresco of Raphael, and in the loggia you can see the image of the classical myth of Cupid and psyche – this work is reminiscent of "the Birth of Venus" by Botticelli. Attraction of the loggia is also painted vault, which shows the position of the planets through the zodiac on the birthday of Agostino Chigi – 29 November 1466.

The main hall on the second floor of the Villa is decorated with frescoes by Peruzzi in the style of trompe l'oeil (technique for creating optical illusions of three-dimensional space) – it seems that through the Windows of the loggia can see the city and the surrounding land. However, the illusion of three-dimensional space is created only if you look at the picture from a certain point. In the next room Il Sodoma painted scenes from the life of Alexander the great.

The Villa became the property of the Farnese family in 1577. In the 16th century, Michelangelo proposed to connect the Palazzo Farnese on the other side of the Tiber, where he worked with the Villa with the help of the bridge. Work on the construction of the bridge would even have been started but never finished – only a few arches on the side of the Palazzo Farnese, which faces the via Julia. Later the Villa was owned by the Naples branch of the Bourbon dynasty, and in the middle of the 19th century – the Spanish Ambassador in Rome.

Today the Villa Farnesina is owned by the Italian Government, is placed in the national Academy dei Lincei and Roman Hall of engravings and prints. The main room of the Villa, including the loggia, are open to the public.