Showing posts with label Palazzo Nuñez Torlonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palazzo Nuñez Torlonia. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

NUÑEZ TORLONIA PALACE

PALAZZO NUÑEZ TORLONIA
1658/60 Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (1616/95) maybe from a design of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680) for the Marquis Nuñez
In 1806 it became the property of the Bonaparte family and here lived Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte, who had Raffaele Stern (1774/1820) to renovate the building
In 1842 it was bought by the Torlonia family who had Antonio Sarti (1797/1880) to restore and enlarge it
Marino Torlonia wanted to build the Hotel d'Inghilterra (Hotel England) in front of the building for his guests
It was again restored in 1989

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

HOTEL D'INGHILTERRA

HOTEL D'INGHILTERRA
1842 Antonio Sarti (1797/1880) for the Torlonia family as a provisional residence, pending the restoration of their newly bought home nearby, in Via Condotti (Palazzo Nuñez Torlonia)
It was soon after used as a guest house to host guests of the Torlonia family, foreign artists and intellectuals
Later it became a regular hotel