Monday, May 30, 2016

CENCI BOLOGNETTI PALACE ON PIAZZA DEL GESÙ

PALAZZO CENCI BOLOGNETTI IN PIAZZA DEL GESÙ

1737 for Count Alessandro Petroni
It was an expansion of a preexisting palace of the sixteenth century
FAÇADE about 1745 Ferdinando Fuga (1699/1782)
As soon as it was completed it was sold to the Bolognetti family which ended in 1775 when the last female heir married Virginio Cenci
It was the seat of the Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democratic Party)
“Fuga applied Mannerist quotes (pilasters of the first floor windows tapered down) and allusive references to Michelangelo (in the ground floor windows, in the projection of the windows pediments and in the moldings used as shelves under the windows of the second floor)” (Gaetana Cantone - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

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