Sunday, April 30, 2017

MAFFEI MARESCOTTI PALACE

PALAZZO MAFFEI MARESCOTTI
1580 Giacomo Della Porta (1533/1602) for Cardinal Marcantonio Maffei. The construction was interrupted unfinished in 1601 for the death of the client
It was bought in 1746 by the Marescotti family and transformed maybe​by Ferdinando Fuga (1699/1782)
FAƇADE ON VIA DELLA PIGNA 1865 by Antonio Sarti (1797/1880) for the Bank of the Papal States, which had bought the palace it in that same year
The head office of the bank relocated to the Vatican in 1906 and the building was used for the offices of the Vicariate until 1964
It is now home to Catholic organizations such as Azione Cattolica (Catholic Action)
CHAPEL
Ceiling and frieze painted in the fifteenth century
Seventeenth-century frescoes on the walls

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