POLI PALACE

PALAZZO POLI

Via Poli 54

1566 Martino Longhi the Elder (1534/91) who restored existing buildings for the Ceri family. At his death he was succeeded by Ottaviano Nonni aka Ottaviano Mascherino (1524/1606)

In 1678 the palace passed to the Poli family, and in 1812 to the Boncompagni who rented it out in part

Famous tenants of the building were the poet Gioacchino Belli and Princess Zenaide Wolkonski holding in her living room a gathering of aristocrats and scholars

The great DANTE HALL overlooking the Trevi Fountain was used as a ballroom, and now as a hall for exhibitions and cultural events

In 1978 it became property of the Italian state which turned it into the seat of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GRAPHICS

On one of its sides the famous TREVI FOUNTAIN was completed in 1762

PALACE OF CHALCOGRAPHY

PALAZZO DELLA CALCOGRAFIA

Via della Stamperia 6

1835/37 Giuseppe Valadier (1762/1839) for Gregory XVI Cappellari (1831/46)

It is the seat of the ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA GRAFICA (National Institute for Graphics)

There are exhibition halls, a reading room and offices

The Cabinet of Prints is located in the adjacent Palazzo Poli also home of the institution

About 23,500 drawings and 110,000 prints from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century and 2,000 copper plates including some engraved by G.B. Piranesi and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

In addition, drawings and prints from the National Chalcography: about 1,600 drawings e 28,000 prints

Also on display are tools for cutting, machinery and ancient presses

The printing activity is still active, albeit not continuously

The institute also has a photographic documentary archive and a historical photo library with works by the most important artists in the history of nineteenth-century Italian photography