{"id":494,"date":"2015-04-28T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:30:51","slug":"villa-farnesina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/italy\/rome\/villa-farnesina\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Farnesina"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"494\" class=\"elementor elementor-494 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d2yqren elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d2yqren\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-u8julps\" data-id=\"u8julps\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-g4gfg77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"g4gfg77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Villa Farnesina, built in the early 16th century for the wealthy banker Agostino Chigi, is one of Rome&#8217;s finest Renaissance villas, though its main draw for classicists lies in its subject matter rather than its antiquity. Its frescoed rooms, painted by Raphael and his workshop, along with Sebastiano del Piombo and others, depict scenes from classical mythology, most famously the &#8220;Triumph of Galatea,&#8221; in which the sea nymph rides a shell-drawn chariot across the waves, and scenes from the story of Cupid and Psyche in the villa&#8217;s loggia. The villa illustrates how deeply Renaissance artists and patrons drew on Greek and Roman mythology to decorate their homes, making it a valuable stop for understanding the classical tradition&#8217;s afterlife in later European art. [Editor&#8217;s note: the original site listed this page but never added content. This paragraph was drafted as a placeholder and should be reviewed\/expanded by Dr. Siegel.]<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-nfxt185 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"nfxt185\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Villa Farnesina, built in the early 16th century for the wealthy banker Agostino Chigi, is one of Rome&#8217;s finest Renaissance villas, though its main draw for classicists lies in its subject matter rather than its antiquity. Its frescoed rooms, painted by Raphael and his workshop, along with Sebastiano del Piombo and others, depict scenes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/1307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}