TORLONIA PALACE

PALAZZO TORLONIA

Via della Conciliazione 30

Begun about 1500 by Cardinal Adriano da Corneto Castellesi secretary of Alexander VI Borgia (1492/1503) with a project maybe by Donato Bramante (1444/1514)

The works were completed in about 1520 maybe by Andrea Bregno (1418/1503)

It was donated unfinished in 1505 to the King of England, Henry VIII, who had commissioned the now disappeared external paintings to Polidoro Caldara aka Polidoro da Caravaggio

It was the seat of the English Embassy and was seized by the apostolic chamber after the Anglican schism

Between 1609 and 1635 it belonged to the Borghese family

In 1760 it was bought by the French bankers Giraud and was called PALAZZO GIRAUD

Since 1820 it belongs to the Torlonia family who restored it and built the rear wing. They are still the owners to this day

PALACE OF THE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF VENICE

PALAZZO DELLE ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI DI VENEZIA

Piazza Venezia 11

1902/06 Arturo Pazzi (XIX/XX centuries) and Alberto Manassei (1855/1939) with the participation of Guido Cirilli (1871/1954) for Marco Besso

The idea of replicating the structure of Palazzo Venezia across the square in fifteenth-century Venetian style was Giuseppe Sacconi's (1854/1905)

Built on the site of the destroyed Palazzo Nepoti and Palazzo Torlonia by Carlo Fontana

On the FAÇADE “Lion of St. Mark” of the sixteenth century from the Walls of Padua

On the right side of the building there is a PLAQUE commemorating the site of the house where the divine artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475/1564) lived and died