Thursday, August 24, 2017

PATRIZI PALACE

PALAZZO PATRIZI
1603/11 maybe (according to Giovanni Baglione) by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629) or maybe by Giovanni Fontana (1540/1614) by Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592/1605)
Formerly PALAZZO ALDOBRANDINI
The Patrizi family still lives here since 1642
Some of the rooms are rented for receptions and gala dinners
It is in part the Mexican Embassy
SECOND FLOOR
Frescoes 1642/49 by Raffaele Vanni (1587/1673) from Siena
DANCING ROOM
Paintings in the ceiling “Muses” by Francesco Solimena (1657/1747) from Campania, the best pupil of Luca Giordano
“Solimena kept the good traditions of doctrine and style embraced in his rejection of the Baroque, resulting generally in a technical virtuosity, often not immune from statuary effects in his most studied intent of motion. (...) The formula of Solimena was in the first half of the century, more responsive to the courtly artistic conceptions of kings and powerful aristocrats, remaining at the time the rediscovery of the Baroque, recycled in terms of rococo, relegated to the sensitivity of the futuristic bourgeois salons across the Alps or of small Italian collectors of more advanced cosmopolitan tastes” (Giancarlo Sestieri)

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