1662 Carlo Rainaldi (1611/91) for Filippo Giuliano
Mazzarino Mancini Duke of Nevers and continued until 1690 by Sebastiano Cipriani (about 1660/1740)
Formerly
known as Palazzo Salviati is now owned by the Bank of Sicily
Paolo
Mancini and his wife Victoria Capocci established here the Academy of Humorists,
a meeting place for artists and intellectuals, including G.B. Marino
In 1725 it
was bought by the king of France, Louis XV, and was until 1803 the seat of the FRENCH
ACADEMY, the most prestigious art school at the time, before it was moved to Villa Medici
The Academy
was known as the only public place where it was possible to carry out studies
of live nudes, in a period when strict decency was required especially in works
commissioned by the papal state
In the
GALLERY, a large hall with a barrel vault of 17 m (56 feet) in 1769 students of
the French Academy practiced copying into detail the paintings of Raphael in
the Vatican Loggia
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