PALACE OF THE HOLY APOSTLES

PALAZZO DEI SS. APOSTOLI

Piazza dei Ss. Apostoli 51

1478/80 Giuliano Giamberti aka Giuliano da Sangallo (1445/1516) for Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere who later became Pope Julius II (1503/13)

TWO ADJOINING CLOISTERS

The first dates back to the end of the fifteenth century

The second to the years 1503/12:

Fine marble relief inserted in the wall “Annunciation to the Shepherds, Nativity and Lavender of Christ” by an anonymous sculptor of the fifteenth century

“Fountain” by Domenico Fontana (1543/1607)

“Bronze statue of S. Maximilian Kolbe (1894/1941)”

“Funerary monument of Cardinal Bessarion (1408/72)”

“Cenotaph of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475/1564 )” who had his first tomb in the adjacent Basilica of the Holy Apostles

The recumbent figure is, in fact, maybe the philosopher Ferdinando Eustachio who died in 1594

On February 18, 1564 the funeral of Michelangelo Buonarroti took place in the Basilica of the Holy Apostles. Eighteen days after the funeral, his nephew Leonardo stole the body and carried it in a cart covered with cloths to Florence, where it was buried in the church of Santa Croce

PALAZZO BALESTRA

PALAZZO BALESTRA

Piazza Ss. Apostoli 49

1644 maybe Mattia De Rossi (1637/95) for the Marquis G.B. Muti Papazzurri

It was known as Palazzo Muti-Papazzurri until it was acquired in the nineteenth century by the Balestra family

Now it is property of the insurance company RAS

The Stuart family lived there from 1718 to 1807, including the pretender to the throne of England James III Stuart (1688/1766)

Here the last representative of the family died in 1807, the Cardinal Henry Stuart duke of York, son of James III, the fourth and final “Jacobite” (i.e. the Catholic line of the Stuart family) pretender to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland

He would have been called Henry IX

The Stuart family reigned over Scotland from 1371 to 1707 and over England, Scotland and Ireland from 1603 to 1707