Monday, April 17, 2017

LANCELLOTTI PALACE ON VIA DEI CORONARI

PALAZZO LANCELLOTTI AI CORONARI
1591/94 Francesco Capriani aka Francesco da Volterra (1535/94) for Cardinal Scipione Lancellotti
It was completed in the years 1598/1610 by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629)
PORTAL and BALCONY by Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641)
“Maderno must have kept at least part of the previous project, because the size of the stairs today correspond perfectly to those described in the contract of 1591. His intervention is clearly recognizable in the loggia on the roof, almost identical to that of Palazzo Mattei, in the large windows of the stairs, in the architectural decoration of the courtyard of the stairs of the hallway, of the loggia on the upper floor and of some rooms on the ground floor. The skill with which irregularities and planimetric asymmetries due to previous constructions were masked is also characteristic of Maderno” (Patrizia Cavazzini)
It is one of the few buildings in Rome still inhabited by the same family who built it
On 20 September 1870 the Prince Lancellotti shut the door in protest “against the Italian aggression to the Papal States” and reopened it only in 1929. In the meantime, someone had written on the columns of the portal in red “V.V.E.” (Viva Vittorio Emanuele - Long Live Victor Emmanuel), a writing still readable today albeit faded
The extraordinary collection of ancient statues and marble reliefs, many of which are inserted in the walls and were completed arbitrarily from the seventeenth century onwards, includes more than 100 pieces
The “Lancellotti Discus Thrower” now at Palazzo Massimo used to be kept in this palace
ROOM OF GENEROSITY
In the vault splendid “Allegory of Generosity” by Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647) with Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)
ROOM OF GUERCINO
In the vault “The love of virtue crowns true nobility”1621 Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666) and Agostino Tassi
ROOM OF THE JERUSALEM DELIVERED
Four oval panels “Allegories and stories of Rinaldo and Armida” 1621 by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666) and Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)
ROOM OF THE GROOMS
Grandiose colonnade painted over two floors that opens to fake rural and marine views

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