1515/20 Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) (1483/1520) for his friend
G.B. Branconio chamberlain of Leo X Medici (1513/21)
It was
demolished in the seventeenth century to open the new Piazza Rusticucci which
took its name from the palace
It was one
of the architectural masterpieces of the Renaissance, the archetype of an
architectural style derived from ephemeral scenes of parties and theater
“The
prestige of the owner suggested to Sanzio a reference to a precise classical
model, the exedra of the Trajan's Markets. Correspondence between the virtues
of the emperor saved from limbo and the contemporary patron are part of a wider
symmetry established between the old Roman Empire and the monarchy of the popes”
(Carlo Bertelli, Giuliano Briganti, Antonio Giuliano)
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