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The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco masterpiece completed about 1514 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome.The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi one of the richest men of that age. The Farnese family later acquired and renamed the villa smaller than the more ostentatious palazzo at the other side of the Tiber.