![]() ![]() ![]() In 1509 Julius II accepted him into the papal familia and allowed the Chigi arms (six hills crowned with a star) to be charged with the Della Rovere oak. He assisted in Julius II’s election, and apart from financial matters, the two were quite attached by a shared love for art, literature, theatre and the an¬cient world. After the very brief pontificate of Pius III Tode¬schini Piccolomini, his business relations with Julius II della Rovere were no less profitable. By rationalising and nurturing the extraction and sale of this valuable mineral salt, which was indispensable for the dyeing of fabrics, Agostino became the pos¬sessor of a flourishing international monopoly with his own fleet, anchored at Porto Ercole. However the real ba¬sis of his immense fortune came from the rights he owned to the alum mines of Tolfa near Rome. With the election of the Borgia pope Alexander VI in 1492, business increased for the sienese bankers, and Agostino’s affairs prospered so well that within a short time he was lending huge sums of money to Cesare Borgia, Piero de’ Medici, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro and even to the French king Charles VIII. After receiving train¬ing in his father’s bank, he soon became familiar with the finances of the Papal States and at just twenty years old, he founded his first company in Rome. Agostino came from a family of mer¬chants who became bankers. It should re¬ally have been named after Agostino Chigi, the high¬ly ambitious patron and art-lover who was born in Siena in 1466 and who commissioned the Villa as the tangible sign of his own personality and high culture, decorating it magnificently and living in it until his death in 1520. The sober volumet¬ric and spatial layout of the Villa, devised by the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi, is indeed the per¬fect setting for its rich interior decoration, boasting frescos by great masters such as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Sodoma, and Peruzzi himself.Īfter a somewhat troubled history and many changes of ownership, the Villa now bears the name and preserves the memory of the Farnese family, who acquired it in 1579 in violation of the binding legal conditions imposed by its original owner. It is a masterpiece in which architectural design and pictorial decoration fuse in¬to a single marvellous synthesis. Lime, stone and wood: three natural and classic elements in the Ibizan architecture that, in this house has been used in a totally different way.The Villa Farnesina in Rome, built in the early six¬teenth century for the rich sienese banker Agostino Chigi and now owned by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, is one of the noblest and most harmonious creations of the Italian Renaissance. Undoubtedly, this effort to provide the house with environmental comfort without resorting to aggressive technological systems: south facing to receive the greatest contribution of natural light eaves and facade openings designed to enhance direct solar radiation in winter and attenuate it in summer. The result is a large warm and comfortable space in winter, and in summer, it becomes an almost exterior room, well ventilated and without artificial energy input. Rooms with doors that are confused and hidden between the wooden panels. Large folding sliding wooden slats to remake spaces as we please. It can be a winter or summer room, with a large dining room with walls lined with white-varnished wooden slats. The project recreates a distribution in basic modules of the Ibizan type with a stone wall that acts as a groundbreaking element.Īn open room from side to side, with large windows that achieves the effect of intermediate space. The synergy achieved in this project between owner, interior designer and architect has allowed to develop an innovative style that exudes personality and good taste. The farm is located in a rural area of the island, in a land surrounded by pine trees and olive trees, overlooking the sea. ![]() Successful dialogue between modernity and tradition using elements of typical Ibizan architecture in this house northeast of the island. ![]() Architecture of modernity and Ibizan tradition ![]()
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