Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
The foundation that runs the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae was established in Helsinki on 4 November 1938 by Amos Anderson, patron of the arts and culture and owner of the largest Swedish-language newspaper in Finland.[3][4] During the seventeenth century, ownership of the villa came into the hands of Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Duke of Bomarzo.The Lante family was forced to sell the villa in the early nineteenth century because of financial penury.In the late nineteenth century, the villa was ownder by the German archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig.As well as academic research, the institute provides a supportive environment for experts in the visual arts, with an artist’s studio on the ground floor of Villa Lante.
