# View of the garden side [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERUZZI, Baldassare]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided perhaps by Giuliano da Sangallo, designed and erected the villa. The novelty of this suburban villa design can be discerned from its differences from that of a typical urban palazzo \(palace\). Renaissance palaces typically faced onto a street and were decorated versions of defensive castles: rectangular blocks with rusticated ground floors and enclosing a courtyard. This villa, intended to be an airy summer pavilion, presented a side towards the street and was given a U shaped plan with a five bay loggia between the arms. In the original arrangement, the main entrance was through the north facing loggia which was open. \(Today the loggia is glazed.\) 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]()