Thursday, August 24, 2017

PECCI BLUNT PALACE

PALAZZO PECCI BLUNT
Built in early 1500s
It was owned by the families Paluzzi Albertoni, Gottardi and Fani who restructured it with Giacomo Della Porta (1533/1602)
Then it belonged to the Spada family and since 1632 to the Ruspoli who had their first residence in Rome here and remained until 1745, when they moved into the building in Via del Corso and sold it to the Malatesta family
In 1599 St. Charles Borromeo lived here
Finally, it was bought in 1929 by the Pecci Blunt family, current owners, the family of Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1878/1903)
SECOND FLOOR
Frescoes “Stories of the Old Testament” by Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609) and Taddeo Zuccari (1529/66)
LOGGIA
Frescoes by Raffaellino Motta aka Raffaellino da Reggio (1550/78)
PINK ROOM
Paintings by Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736)

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