# View of the garden side [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERUZZI, Baldassare]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Immediately outside the gates of Rome, between the banks of Tiber and Monte Gianicolo, the merchant and banker Agostino Chigi had a villa built between 1505 and 1511, the present Villa Farnesina. Chigi was from Siena and had become fabulously wealthy in Rome under the Popes Alexander VI and Julius II. His business network stretched across Europe. In this new villa, designed by Baldassare Peruzzi, he held celebrated parties with popes, cardinals, and friends; there he enjoyed a refined lifestyle, surrounded by humanists and poets. Countless antiquities were placed in the garden; the loggias and halls were lavishly decorated with paintings. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/p/peruzzi/farnesina.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of Villa Farnesina, Rome. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and the Muses]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration \(Volta Dorata\)]() - [Decoration of the Sala delle Prospettive]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Perseus and Pegasus]() - [Perspective view of the Sala delle Prospettive]() - [Perspective view of the Sala delle Prospettive]() - [Perspective view of the Sala delle Prospettive]() - [Tomb of Pope Hadrian VI]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()