Triumph of Galatea (detail)
The Council of the Gods (detail)
Venus and Capricorn
Bacchus and Ariadne
Triumph of Galatea (detail)
The Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche
The Triumph of Galatea
Cupid and the Three Graces
Mercury Brings Psyche up to Olympus
Perseus and Medusa
Cupid Pleads with Jupiter for Psyche
Hercules and the Hydra
Fame and Medusa's Victims
Venus and the Doves
Head of a Youth
Council of the Gods
The Rape of Ganymede
The Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche
Venus Appeals to Ceres and Juno
Hercules Defeating the Nemean Lion
The Fall of Phaeton
Dionysian Procession
Putti with Cerberus
Council of the Gods (detail)
Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas
The Wedding of Alexander and Roxane
Ceiling of the Hall of Galatea
Mercury (detail)
Venus Presenting Psyche to Cupid
The Charioteer (Auriga)
Lyra and Apollo
Mercury
Ceiling with Putti and Garland
Corridor of the Grotesques
Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche (detail)
Zephyrus Blowing on Flora
Marine Scene with Nereids
Illusionistic Architecture and Statue
Putto with Trident
Grotesque Ceiling with Flying Figure
The Family of Darius Before Alexander
The Council of the Gods (detail)
Triumph of Galatea (detail)
Venus and Jupiter
Putto with Thunderbolts
Apollo and the Centaur
Villa Farnesina
Villa Farnesina, set beside the Tiber in Trastevere, was built 1506–11 for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi as a humanist retreat where ancient myth, astrology, and modern wealth could meet. Its airy architecture by Baldassarre Peruzzi frames fresco cycles by Raphael and others, from Galatea’s sea-borne triumph to the ceiling of Cupid and Psyche, turning reception rooms into learned theatre. Later taken over by the Farnese, the villa endures as one of Rome’s clearest statements of High Renaissance taste and ambition.
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