FAÇADE
about 1600 by Onorio Longhi (1568/1619) the son
of Martino Longhi the Elder and a great friend of Caravaggio
The façade
was reassembled here in the 1920s, the only remnant of the destroyed Villa
Altemps formerly on Via Flaminia near the Porta del Popolo
The image
of a rampant ram, symbol of the Altemps family, is represented in the
decoration
The Altemps
family was originally from Tyrol and the original name was Sittich von
Hohenems transformed in Sittico Altemps when they settled in early 1500s,
first in Milan, where they became relatives of the Milanese Medici, and later
in Rome
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