Villa Albani

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Villa Albani
Drawing by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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General information
Location	Rome
Coordinates	41°54′57.2″N 12°30′00.9″E / 41.915889°N 12.500250°E / 41.915889; 12.500250

The Villa Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani. It was built between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni in a project heavily influenced by others – such as Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities, curated by Winckelmann. The villa has been conserved intact into the 21st century by the Torlonia Family, who bought it in 1866. In 1870, the treaty following the Capture of Rome from the Papal States was signed here.