General view

Camillo Pamphili rejected Borromini’s first design for the Villa Doria Pamphili, located on the Gianicolo in Rome. The sculptor Alessandro Algardi, who received the commission instead of Borromini, preferred an academic example of a “museum fa�ade” comparable to the late Mannerist Villa Borghese, in which countless fragments of sculpture from Antiquity were displayed.

It began as a villa for the Pamphili family and when the line died out in the eighteenth century, it passed to Prince Giovanni Andrea IV Doria from which time it has been known as the Villa Doria Pamphili. Today it is the largest landscaped public park in Rome.