1591/94 Francesco Capriani aka
Francesco da Volterra (1535/94) for Cardinal Scipione Lancellotti
It was
completed in the years 1598/1610 by Carlo Maderno
(1556/1629)
PORTAL and BALCONY by Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641)
“Maderno
must have kept at least part of the previous project, because the size of the
stairs today correspond perfectly to those described in the contract of 1591.
His intervention is clearly recognizable in the loggia on the roof, almost identical
to that of Palazzo Mattei, in the large windows of the stairs, in the
architectural decoration of the courtyard of the stairs of the hallway, of the
loggia on the upper floor and of some rooms on the ground floor. The skill with
which irregularities and planimetric asymmetries due to previous constructions
were masked is also characteristic of Maderno” (Patrizia Cavazzini)
It is one
of the few buildings in Rome still inhabited by the same family who built it
On 20
September 1870 the Prince Lancellotti shut the door in protest “against the
Italian aggression to the Papal States” and reopened it only in 1929. In the
meantime, someone had written on the columns of the portal in red “V.V.E.”
(Viva Vittorio Emanuele - Long Live Victor Emmanuel), a writing still readable
today albeit faded
The
extraordinary collection of ancient statues and marble reliefs, many of
which are inserted in the walls and were completed arbitrarily from the
seventeenth century onwards, includes more than 100 pieces
The “Lancellotti
Discus Thrower” now at Palazzo Massimo
used to be kept in this palace
ROOM OF
GENEROSITY
In the
vault splendid “Allegory of Generosity” by Giovanni
Lanfranco (1582/1647) with Agostino Tassi
(1578/1644)
ROOM OF
GUERCINO
In the
vault “The love of virtue crowns true nobility”1621 Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
aka Guercino (1591/1666) and Agostino Tassi
ROOM OF THE
JERUSALEM DELIVERED
Four oval
panels “Allegories and stories of Rinaldo and Armida” 1621 by Giovanni
Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666) and Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)
ROOM OF THE
GROOMS
Grandiose
colonnade painted over two floors that opens to fake rural and marine views
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