Villa Albani was built by Carlo Marchionni for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, nephew of Pope Clemens XI. Here the Cardinal gathered a celebrated collection of classical sculpture which was ordered by J. J. Winckelmann in 1765. Financial needs, ravages by Napoleon, upturns of life forced the Albani to sell their villa to the Chigi, who eventually sold it to the Torlonia (the most affluent family of XIXth century Rome) to whom the villa still belongs. The view is taken from the green dot in the small 1748 map here below (the casino was not yet built). In the description below the plate Vasi made reference to: 1) Fountain with old statues and Egyptian granite cup; 2) Laying statue; 3) Porticoes with statues. The small map shows also 4) Tomba di Lucilio Peto.