The hidden villa. Virtual modeling in survey of Villa Farnesina in Rome.

Villa Farnesina in Rome, commissioned by Agostino Chigi in the early sixteenth century, owes its fame above all to the frescoes due to the pictorial mastery of Baldassare Peruzzi, Raphael and Sebastiano del Piombo. But the villa, one of the main works of the same Baldassare Peruzzi in Rome, is the result of a constructive program that has lasted over time, until the twentieth century, both in relation to personal circumstances of the client and his heirs and because of the successive changes of ownership. Since the end of 2013, thanks to the availability of the Accademia dei Lincei that owns it, has started a research activity aimed at the critical rereading of the building and its context. The survey was conducted through the integration of multiple mensorie techniques with the fundamental help of laser scanning used in all interior and exterior environments. Later, based on of metric measurements it was decided to create a series of virtual models of the villa useful to understand the evolution of the various construction phases mainly observed. The aim, in addition to the virtually reconstruction of the main phases of the architectural complex, considering at the same time the building and the decorative elements, is to provide an integrated data base and an interactive information system. This paper reports on some results of the research that is coming to its conclusion.