Villa Medici (Rome)
The Villa Medici is a villa in Rome built in the 16th century . It is located on Viale della Trinità dei Monti on the Pincio hill.
The villa stands on the remains of the ancient villa of Lucius Licinius Lucullus . The building was built between 1564 and 1574 by Nanni di Baccio Bigio and, from 1568, by Annibale Lippi . It received its name in 1576 from Cardinal Ferdinando I de 'Medici , who acquired it at that time for his collection of antiquities. In 1633 Galileo Galilei was interned there.
Since 1803 it has housed the Académie de France à Rome (French Academy in Rome) affiliated to the Académie des beaux-arts , which was founded in 1666 by King Louis XIV . The comparable German cultural institution in Rome is the Villa Massimo .
literature
- Heinz-Joachim Fischer : Rome. Two and a half millennia of history, art and culture of the Eternal City. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5607-2 , pp. 266-267.
- Anton Henze: Art Guide Rome . Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-010402-5 , p. 312.
- Glenn M. Andres: The Villa Medici in Rome . Garland, New York 1976, ISBN 0-8240-1975-X .
Remarks
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↑ Atle Naess: Da jorden stod still. Galileo Galilei and Hans tid . Gyldendal, Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-05-27508-4 .
German: When the world stood still. Galileo Galilei, betrayed, misunderstood, adored . Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-21063-6 , p. 15.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 29.8 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 57.1" E