Details of the decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome.

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Born in Siena, Chigi was the member of ancient and illustrious household. He moved to Rome around 1487, collaborating with his father Mariano. The heir of a rich capital, and enriched further after loaning huge amounts of money to Pope Alexander VI, and to other rulers of the time as well. He also detenained lucrative monopolies like the salt harvests of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples, as well as that of the alum excavated in Tolfa, Agnato and Ischia. This page is about Siena, Italy. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Alexander VI, (Rodrigo Borgia) (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503) Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the secular Popes of the Renaissance, whose surname became a byword for low standards in the mediaeval papacy. ... Sea salt, obtained by evaporation of sea water, is a salt used as an ingredient in cooking and in products such as cosmetics. ... The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati Pontificii, States of the Church) was one of the major historical states of Italy before the boot-shaped peninsula was unified under the Piedmontese crown of Savoy (later a republic). ... The Kingdom of Naples was born out of the division of the Kingdom of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. ... A crystal of Alum Alum, in chemistry, is a term given to the crystallized double sulfates of the typical formula M+2SO4·M3+2(SO4)3·24H2O, where M+ is the sign of an alkali metal (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, or caesium), and M3+ denotes one of the trivalent metal... The island of Ischia near Naples, Italy. ...

After the death of the Borgia pope, he helped Pope Julius II: the latter rewarder him associating Chigi to the della Rovere family, and creating him treasurer and notary of the Apostolic Chamber. Agostino set economic relationships with the whole Western Europe, at one time having up to 20,000 emplyees, receiving from Siena the title of Magnifico ("Magnificent"). Julius II, born Giuliano della Rovere (December 5, 1443 – February 21, 1513), was Pope from 1503 to 1513. ... The Italian della Rovere family of the Renaissance supplied two popes: Francesco della Rovere, Pope Sixtus IV, 1471-1484 Juliano della Rovere, Pope Julius II, 1503-1513 ...

Chigi became also a rich patron of art. His protegées included almost all the main artistical figure of the early 16th century: Perugino, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giovanni da Udine, Giulio Romano, Sodoma and Raphael. With the exception of the first one, these figures were called to the decoration of his splendid Villa built on the shore of the Tiber river, today known as Villa Farnesina. Here Chigi held sumptous receipts. In order to show his contempt of money, he was used to throw all the silver dishes in the river after the end of the parties: however, his servants were secretly ready to recollect them with apposite nets. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Self-portrait, 1497-1500. ... Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 – June 21, 1547), Italian painter, was born at Venice. ... Giovanni Nanni, also Giovanni de Ricamatori, better known as Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564), was an Italian painter and architect born in Udine. ... Fire in the Borgo, Vatican fresco Giulio Romano (ca 1499? – November 1, 1546) was an Italian painter, architect, and decorator. ... (1525) Oil on canvas, 206 x 154 cm Galleria Palatina , Florence Il Sodoma (1477 - February 14, 1549?) was the name given to the Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (also wrongly spelled Razzi). ... Self-portrait by Raphael. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Roman villa. ... Tiber River in Rome The River Tiber (Italian Tevere), the third longest river in Italy (disputed — see talk page) at 406 km (252 miles) after the Po and the Adige, flows through the Campagna and Rome in its course from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea, which it reaches in... Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in the centre of Rome. ...

Chigi commissioned Raphael the construction of a chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, in which he was buried after his death in 1520. Another family chapel was built in Santa Maria della Pace. The Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is located on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... mary elline m. ...

See also

Chigi family Chigi-Albani is the name of a Roman princely family of Sienese extraction descended from the counts of Ardenghesca. ...