Villa Lante is one of the best-preserved Renaissance villas in Rome. With Villa Madama, it is a valuable example of the work of the Raphael school in Rome in the sixteenth-century “golden age” of the Medici popes. During its long history, the building has been a summer residence for Roman aristocracy and an international cultural salon. The Finnish state bought the villa in 1950 with a donation from Amos Anderson, the founder of the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae Foundation, and the Institute started operating there in April 1954.
