Villa Giulia

National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia

National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
Villa Giulia is a building in Rome located along the current Viale delle Belle Arti, on the slopes of the Parioli mountains, not far from Via Flaminia.
Built as a summer residence outside the city gates Pope Julius III, from which it takes its name, passed to the Italian State with the capture of Rome in 1870 and was later used as the seat of the National Etruscan Museum, its current intended use.
The current villa is only a small part of a previous property, which contained three vineyards. A villa was built here for Pope Julius III, who was certainly not a theologian, but was an affable humanist and a great lover of the arts. Vasari claims to have been the first to design and invent the entire Vigna Julia, but the construction and decoration were the work of a large group of artists, of whom more is said later. Often, as Vasari testifies, contacts between the Pope and the group of artists were held by Monsignor…..Wikipedia…>>