Villa Medici

The Villa Medici is a sixteenth-century Mannerist villa on the Pincian Hill in Rome, begun to a design by the architect Annibale Lippi and completed by Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1544. Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici bought the property in 1576 and made it the grandest of the Medici family's Roman holdings and the seat of the Medici embassy to the Holy See, filling it with a renowned collection of antiquities. After the Medici line ended in 1737 the villa passed through Lorraine and papal hands before Napoleon assigned it to the French Academy in Rome in 1803, and it still houses that academy today, alongside a public museum. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/