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Villa Medici

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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/

Facts
Building Type
Museum 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Rome, Italy 2
Completed Year
1544 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Museum 1
Connections

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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Mannerism, Styles and Movements
Source Villa Medici (Wikipedia)
Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Villa Medici (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Medici (Wikipedia)
  • Villa Medici, History section
    In 1564, when the nephews of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci of Montepulciano acquired the property, it had long been abandoned to viticulture.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = 1544
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    building_type = Museum
  • In Style: Mannerism, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Mannerist architecture in Italy
  • In Style: Renaissance Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Renaissance architecture in Rome
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2. Villa Medici (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Rome, Italy
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Rome, Italy
Wikidata item Q1362663, property P131/P17 (location): Rome, Italy
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