For the past four hundred and fifty years, this beautiful villa has been immortalized by poets, artists, and architects, such as Goethe, Elliot, Gogol, Henry James, Stendahl, D’Annunzio, Tchaikovsky, Hawthorne, Caravaggio, Guercino, Brill, Viola, Domenichino, Valesio, Pomarancho, Bernini, to name a few.
Today the villa still exudes the ancient splendor of when It was frescoed by Guercino, who painted his masterpiece “L’Aurora” (1621- 1623), which is magnificently displayed on the ground floor of the villa (left) and for which the villa derives its name.
It remains one of the most famous painted decors in Rome.