1741 Ferdinando Fuga (1699/1782)
Two
paintings in the room on the mezzanine:
“S. Maria Maggiore” and “Piazza del Quirinale with Palazzo della Consulta”
1742 by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691/1765), a
brilliant landscape artist
“It differs
from the objective views of Van Wittel for a taste for the theatrical and
decorative and for his seemingly casual handling of figurative materials, often
arbitrarily combined; but his views nevertheless are widely lucky with foreign
travelers: in fact, although they are often invented, they can anyway manage to
make alive again the memory of the impact with the grandeur of that historic
fabric, the tingle of life, the space and the light of the city” (Carlo
Bertelli, Giuliano Briganti, Antonio Giuliano)
Five
paintings by Pompeo Batoni (1708/87) in the
vault of the green room
Five works
by Agostino Masucci (1691/1758) in the turquoise
room
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE
Quirinal
Stables
Begun 1722
by Alessandro Specchi (1668/1729) for Innocent
XIII Conti (1721/24) and finished in 1730 by Ferdinando
Fuga (1699/1782) for Clement XII Corsini (1730/40)
Mutilation
with removal of the semi-elliptical staircases by Fuga in 1866 by Virginio Vespignani (1808/82) for Pius IX
Mastai-Ferretti (1846/78) to open Via della Dataria
The building
was built on the spot where was the glorious Temple of Serapis used to stand. Some of the ancient
structures are still visible
In
2000 it was redesigned by Gae Aulenti (1927/2012) as a museum for prestigious temporary
exhibitions
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