The Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia has been located since 1889 in Villa Giulia, a splendid Renaissance villa with a landscaped garden, terraces connected with spectacular staircases, nymphaeum and fountains, located in the Flaminio neighbourhood of Rome adjacent to Villa Borghese.
Commissioned by Pope Julius III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte), between 1550 and 1555, the greatest artists of the time contributed to the design of the villa: Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo Buonarroti, while part of the decorative work was by Taddeo Zuccari and Prospero Fontana. The hemicycle is decorated with delicate pictorial segments inspired by the grotesque style of the domus aurea.
The exhibition rooms host an extraordinary cycle of frescoes of the seven hills of Rome and artefacts mostly from Southern Etruria, which overlaps more or less with present-day Upper Lazio.
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9 - 00196 Roma
Tel: 06 3226571
Fax: 06 3202010
Email: mn-etru@beniculturali.it
Other audiovisual works shot in the place:
Films
- Amore mio aiutami (1969 - A. Sordi)
- La sindrome di Stendhal (1996 - D. Argento)
- Il Peccato (2018 - A. Konchalovski)
Tv series
- I Medici – The Magnificent (stagione 3)
Documentaries
- Italia, viaggio nella bellezza (RAI Cultura)
- Meraviglie: la penisola dei tesori (RAI 1)
- Sette Meraviglie (SKY Arte HD)
- Petrolio – Ladri di bellezza (RAI)
