Stock Photo - Plautilla Bricci, Project for the Villa Benedetta, known as the Vascello (1663; pen and brown ink, gray watercolor on light-colored paper; Rome, Archivio di Stato, Trenta Notai Capitolini, Uff. 29, vol. 182); The meeting with Benedetti, secretary to Cardinal Giulio Mazzarino and acquaintance of great artists of the period such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini or Giovan Francesco Grimaldi, enabled the young Bricci to begin her career as an architect with the construction of her most important work, Villa Benedetta. The plans of this villa, which was built in 1662 and destroyed in 1849 during the French siege of Rome, demonstrate the total authorship of the building to Bricci, who counted on the collaboration of Bernini and Grimaldi himself. Plautilla Bricci authoritatively leads the building site where she feels at ease and gets Elpidio to involve her brother Basilio in the project. Basilio possessed many of his father's abilities, but had difficulty putting them into practice. When Villa Benedetta is completed, the guide written by Elpidio Benedetti states that the architect Basilio Bricci was assisted by his sister "Mrs. Plautilla, famous painter" Even in the face of this 'theft' Plautilla remains silent, despite her great sadness. How she remains silent when they don't pay her for a job that lasted a year because the client is dead and she leaves it to him anyway. Determined and silent when she dedicates herself to studying to live up to every commitment, determined and silent in life even to overcome the plague when the disease arrives in Rome. Plautilla Bricci – Project of Villa Benedetta The villa on the Gianicolo, Villa Benedetta, no longer exists, was demolished by the French in 1849, but the drawings displayed in the exhibition give us back a beautiful project. The projects not carried out for political reasons are also truly remarkable.