1585/87 Giovanni Fontana (1540/1614) and his more famous
brother Domenico Fontana (1543/1607) for
Monsignor Francesco Vento who sold it shortly after, in 1590, to the
Giustiniani family, rich bankers from Genoa
Continued
by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629), Girolamo Rainaldi (1570/1655) and his son Carlo Rainaldi (1611/91)
It was
finished in 1678 maybe to a design of 1653 by Francesco
Borromini (1599/1667)
The art
collection of the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani ended up comprising about 1,600
pieces of ancient sculpture and about 600 paintings by such artists as
Caravaggio (fifteen paintings!), Raphael, Giorgione, Titian and others
When the
Giustiniani family became extinct at the end of the nineteenth century, the
collection was dispersed and the palace became the seat of Freemasonry
Mussolini
wanted to acquire it for the Senate, but the part that overlooks Piazza della
Rotonda remained the property of Freemasonry until 1888 when the seat was moved
to the Villa del Vascello
Today it
houses the OFFICES OF THE SENATE and it is HOME OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
The palace
is in the area of the BATHS OF NERO AND ALEXANDER SEVERUS of which there are
traces under building
VESTIBULE
“Front of a
sarcophagus with lion hunt”
COURTYARD
“Nine
ancient reliefs”
ROOM OF THE
CONSTITUTION
It was
formerly the library, where it was signed on December 27, 1947 by Enrico De
Nicola, Alcide De Gasperi and Umberto Terracini the Italian Constitution which
became effective on January 1, 1948
ROOM OF THE
COLUMNS or ZUCCARI ROOM
Maybe by Francesco Borromini
Vault
“Five
stories of Solomon” 1586/87 by Federico Zuccari
(c. 1542/1609)
Walls
“Temperance”
and fragments of other “Virtues” by Giovanni Baglione
(1566/1643), Ventura Salimbeni (1568/1613), G.B. Ricci (about 1550/1624) or maybe Antonio Tempesta (about 1555/1630) and Pietro Paolo Bonzi aka Hunchback of Carracci (about
1576/1636)
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