Villa Medici (Rome)

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Villa Medici
The villa and its garden in the 17th century
Villa Medici from the garden

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

Remarks

  1. 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.

Web links

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Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 29.8 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 57.1"  E