Villa Lemmi, Renaissance villa in Careggi district, Florence, Italy

Villa Lemmi is a Renaissance residence in Florence featuring classical architectural details and a garden setting. The property retains its original layout with interior rooms and outdoor spaces from that era.

The property belonged to the wealthy Tornabuoni family between 1469 and 1541, when they commissioned important artworks. During this period, Lorenzo Tornabuoni had Botticelli paint frescoes for his wedding, making the house a Renaissance art commission.

The family who lived here supported major Florentine artists, most notably Sandro Botticelli, who painted grand frescoes in the house. This partnership between wealth and art patronage shaped how the place looked and what it meant to the city.

Villa Lemmi stands at via Taddeo Alderotti 56, in the Careggi district north of central Florence; the Italian sources also give the old name via Chiasso Macerelli. Since 1953 the villa and its grounds have belonged to INAIL, which built the orthopaedic trauma centre (CTO) on the surrounding land and uses the restored villa as a training centre, so the interiors are not open as a museum.

The frescoes were whitewashed, not covered in limestone, and rediscovered in 1863 during works ordered by the Lemmi family. An antiquarian damaged them trying to sell them without revealing their author; bought in 1882 through the dealer Stefano Bardini, they are now in the Louvre's Salle Percier et Fontaine. A fragment remains in the villa's loggia, showing a man in the red robe of a Gonfaloniere di Giustizia.