La villa Farnesina (Rome) (34029492720)

A view of the Renaissance villa's U-shaped exterior, featuring a central loggia with five large arched bays and two projecting wings. The foreground contains a formal garden with low-cut boxwood hedges and a stone fountain in a circular basin. The building exhibits classical architectural elements including Doric pilasters and a decorative frieze beneath the roofline.

Commissioned by the banker Agostino Chigi, the Villa Farnesina is a landmark of High Renaissance humanist architecture and Neoplatonism. It was designed by Baldassare Peruzzi and decorated by Raphael to serve as a 'villa suburbana'—a place for classical leisure (otium) and the study of ancient texts within a circle of scholars and poets.