Also known
as La Farnesina from the name of the area that was property of the
Farnese family
Begun in
1938 as Palazzo del Littorio (Palace of the Lictor, the officer bearing
the fasces in ancient Rome) by Enrico Del Debbio
(1891/1973), Arnaldo Foschini (1884/1968) and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890/1966)
Discontinued
in 1943 due to the war and completed in 1956
“In a sense,
it resumed the self-contradictions of Italian architecture towards the end of
the thirties, when the stimuli and the openings to a renewal that had seemed
possible in some cases, were in fact undermined and resized by the monumental
involution of rhetorical and representative architecture desired by the fascist
regime” (Enrico Valeriani - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
In front of
the palace FOUNTAIN by Enrico Del Debbio
with “Big Sphere” 1968 by Arnaldo Pomodoro
(1926)
PIAZZA DELLA FARNESINA (Farnesina Square) driveway opened
in the years 1998/2002 by Umberto Riva (1928)
It is the
largest palace in Rome with about 1,200 rooms on 120,000 square meters (29.6
acres) and 720,000 cubic meters (25.4 million cubic feet)
The cubic
square footage is similar to that of the Royal Palace of Caserta and they share
tied the record for the largest palace of Italy
Ceilings of
the main rooms decorated with gilded stucco by the Hungarian Amerigo Tot (1909/84) and by Alberto
Bevilacqua and with wood by Giorgio Quaroni (1907/60)
Since
2000, it houses a collection of Italian contemporary art with over 200 works
including paintings, sculptures, mosaics and installations
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