1592 Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609) to house his art
academy, the ACCADEMIA
DI S. LUCA (Academy of St. Luke), established in 1577 but
officially founded in 1593, of which he was also the first Director or Prince
After the
death of Federico Zuccari the building was raised with two extra floors in the
years 1610/18 by Girolamo Rainaldi (1570/1655)
for the new owner MarcantonioToscanella
In 1702 it
was leased to the queen of Poland Maria Casimira
who continued the works of transformation
1904/07
rearrangement of the building by Mario Cannizzaro
to house the library
PORTICO
1711 maybe
by Filippo Juvarra (1678/1736)
In the EXTERNAL
FRIEZE there are the symbols of the Zuccari family: sugarloaf and comets
It is commonly described
as the HOUSE OF MONSTERS for the bizarre decorations around doors and
windows
CORRIDOR
“Hercules
at the Crossroads” by Federico Zuccari and his
older brother Taddeo Zuccari (1529/66)
ROOM OF THE
GLORY OF THE ARTIST
“Effigies
of Federico Zuccari and his family” by Federico Zuccari
and Taddeo Zuccari
Frescoes by
Giulio Pippi aka Giulio Romano (1499/1546) from
Villa Lante on the Janiculum Hill
Among the
personalities who lived in the palace Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717/78),
Pietro Bracci (1700/73) and Louis David (1748/1825) who painted here the famous
“Oath of the Horatii” now in the Louvre
With the
adjacent Palazzo Stroganoff it houses the rich BIBLIOTECA HERTZIANA (Hertz
Library) founded by Henriette Hertz in 1900 specializing in history of medieval
and modern Italian art with over 170,000 volumes
The salon
of Henriette Hertz was attended by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio who
immortalized it in his novel “The Pleasure” in 1905
In the
Hertziana Library there was until 1887 a cycle of frescoes “Stories of Joseph”
painted by the Nazarenes and now in Berlin
Under the
building there is a large wall with semicircular niches, certainly a NYMPHAEUM, a
large fountain, belonging to the Horti Luculliani
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