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. Salone delle VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Prospettive
Peruzzi’s frescoes create Practical Information
the illusion of looking Via della Lungara 230. Map 4 D5
out at views of 16th- & 11 A5. Tel 06-6802 7268.
century Rome through a Open 9am–2pm Mon–Sat and
marble colonnade. second Sun of every month.
Closed Aug. & ^ = 7 8
∑ villafarnesina.it
Transportation
@ 23, 280 to Lungo tevere
Farnesina.

Fresco from the Salone
delle Prospettive
This scene shows the
Torre delle Milizie
(see p92) as it looked
in the 1500s.

. Loggia of Cupid
and Psyche
The model for the figure on
the left in Raphael’s painting
of The Three Graces was
Agostino Chigi’s mistress, the
courtesan Imperia.

Lunette in the
Room of Galatea
This giant monochrome
head by Peruzzi was
once attributed
to Michelangelo.

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