Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini acquired the villa and land in 1736 and commissioned the palace. The article says it was erected between 1730 and 1740, a range that begins before the commission. Ferdinando Fuga is credited with the design. It replaced a 15th-century villa of the Riario family. The article calls the style late Baroque and gives no materials or dimensions.
Christina, Queen of Sweden, hosted the first meetings of the Accademia dell'Arcadia there from 1659 to 1689, when it was still the Riario palace. Joseph Bonaparte was hosted there during the Napoleonic occupation of Rome.
The palace and its contents were sold to the state in 1883. The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica occupies the first floor, and the gardens rise up the Janiculum hill.
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