Villa Giulia is a Renaissance and Mannerist villa built on what was then the edge of Rome between 1551 and 1553 as a suburban pleasure retreat for Pope Julius III. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the main building, Bartolomeo Ammannati created its nymphaeum and garden structures, and Giorgio Vasari and Michelangelo also worked on the project, producing a sequence of courtyards built for entertaining and for escaping the summer heat. The villa is now publicly owned and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, the National Etruscan Museum, displaying its collection of ancient Etruscan art and artifacts. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The pope, a highly literate connoisseur of the arts, assigned the initial design of the building to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1551-1553.
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The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It is named after Pope Julius III, who had it built in 1551-1553 on what was then the edge of the city.
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The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It is named after Pope Julius III, who had it built in 1551-1553 on what was then the edge of the city. Today it is publicly owned, and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, a collection of Etruscan art and artifacts.
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At its rear, the visitor passes through the casina, which again has a hemispherical rear facade, enclosing paired flights of re-entrant marble steps that give access to the heart of the villa complex: a two-story Nympheum for alfresco dining during the heat of the summer.
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Wikidata item Q964499, property P131/P17 (location): Rome, Italy
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