Thursday, December 1, 2016

PALACE OF THE ROMAN INSTITUTE OF REAL ESTATE

PALAZZO DELL'ISTITUTO ROMANO DI BENI STABILI
1915/22 Dario Carbone (about 1857/1934) in a monumental and celebratory Eclectic style in the area previously occupied by the demolished Palazzo Boncompagni Piombino of the end of the sixteenth century
The Boncompagni were allowed to rebuild their own building in the area of the Villa Ludovisi, the Palazzo Boncompagni, later Palazzo Margherita, now U.S. Embassy
It was completed and modified in 1940 by Alberto Calza Bini (1881/1957)
Better known as GALLERIA COLONNA and, since 2003, as GALLERIA ALBERTO SORDI in honor of the Roman actor who died in the same year
It is surprising for the contrast between the ornate monumental exterior and the vast comfortable interior space of the gallery
“I told myself to respect a principle (of great value to the public): if the people of Rome used to enjoy as public land the existing dirt area, well, it was necessary that the architect would leave just as much area as public passage in the building to be constructed” (Dario Carbone)
On the central pediment sculptures:
“Groups of Industry” by Giuseppe Guastalla (1867/1952)
“Groups of Commerce” by Ercole Drei (1886/1973)
Interior decorated by Ulisse Stacchini (1871/1947)

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