Built at
the end of 1500s for the wedding of the nephew of Sixtus V Peretti (1585/90)
Flavia Peretti with Virginio Orsini
Now is the
seat of the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni (Pius Sodality of the Piceni)
derived by the Association of Residents in Rome from Marche Region
The
association was founded in early 1600s and, in 1633, it became the Brotherhood of the Holy House of Loreto
The LIBRARY
contains about 14,000 books
Courtyard
and roof terrace with frescoes by Paul Brill
(1554/1626)
INSIDE
LOGGIA
“Stories of
Hercules and nudes” Giuseppe Cesari aka Cavalier
d'Arpino (1568/1640) and Federico Zuccari
(about 1542/1609)
ROOMS
Oil
paintings on canvas such as:
“Our Lady
of Mercy” by Federico Fiori aka Barocci
(1535/1612)
“Virgin
Mary with Child blessing aka S. Maria delle Grazie” 1494 by Antonio Aquili aka Antoniazzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)
It was
originally a processional standard and it was the only painting not to have been
destroyed by the fire of 1591 in the church of S. Salvatore in Lauro
“The
stylistic and compositional features, including the structure of the throne in
a niche or the iconography of the sacred group, correspond to the subjects of
Marian paintings of the nineties definitely attributed to Antoniazzo (...) here
solved in a version with a more pronounced Umbrian character, derived from
Pinturicchio. His original function as a standard makes it a typical product of
the mature phase of the painter, when the demands intensified in his workshop
for equipment and items to be carried in processions on the occasion of the
annual festivals of the brotherhoods” (Anna Cavallaro)
“Cardinal Domenico Consolini” by Francesco
Podesti (1800/95
“Christ
Redeemer” attributed to Melozzo of Ambrosi aka Melozzo
da Forlì (1438/94)
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