Showing posts with label Palazzo del Gallo di Roccagiovine. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

GALLO DI ROCCAGIOVINE PALACE

PALAZZO DEL GALLO DI ROCCAGIOVINE

1520/27 Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481/1536) for Ugo Spina
Renovated about 1720 by the brilliant Alessandro Specchi (1668/1729) for Alessandro Pighini and formerly known as Palazzo Pighini
Since the nineteenth century it is owned by the Gallo di Roccagiovine family still living in the building
A recent restoration has brought back the original sky color typical of many eighteenth-century buildings, unfortunately, often darkened by layers of paint applied in the nineteenth century
In the courtyard there is a spectacular staircase over three floors that the genius of Alessandro Specchi wanted visible and external, breaking with the tradition of noble staircases not visible and internal