Sunday, December 17, 2017

VISCARDI CELSI PALACE

PALAZZO VISCARDI CELSI
End of 1500 for the Celsi family
FAÇADE renewed in 1678 by Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (1616/95)
When the Celsi family finished in the early 1700s, it passed to the Viscardi family who changed the entire façade
Today it belongs to the Mercantili Bernetti family
RECTANGULAR COURTYARD
Ancient sculptures and a fountain composed of a “Strigillated sarcophagus with lion heads” that serves as a tank in which water flows from the mouth of a mask
ROOM WITH ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Beautifully painted by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691/1765)
“His importance consisted in the timely reception of the necessity, even in his specific genre, to break away from the drama and rhetoric of his predecessors of the seventeenth century, by means of a language that would be more agile and brilliant, implemented with a painting drive loose and mushy. The technical implementation is coupled, however, with taste of a man of theater, who knows how to make come alive his whims with the basic animation of human presence and of subsidiary details, informing the viewer of the memory or of the suggestions of a very much alive rapport, lived in direct contact with his views in the eternal city. His views, in fact, with their subtle balance between reality and fantasy, are always on a human scale, not taking the ever looming and impending timeless grandeur of Piranesi” (Giancarlo Sestieri)

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