Built in
the sixteenth century
It was
bought in 1820 by Count Luigi Primoli
It was
transformed in the years 1909/11 by Raffaele Ojetti
(1845/1924) for Count Giuseppe Primoli with the NEW FAÇADE ALONG THE RIVER
TIBER
The ground
floor was buried and the gardens, that had occupied the area up to the river,
disappeared
ROOMS
Some
ceilings of the eighteenth century with painted beams
Friezes in
three rooms of early 1800s, in two rooms of the second half of 1800s
“Interpreter
of the aspirations of his client, Ojetti the original building in the new
palace, transforming it into a stately neo-fifteen hundreds residence with a
Roman flair, typical of the fin de siècle. With great mastery, he united in one
design distinct elements corresponding to different functions, creating an
ordered façade, despite its irregularities and asymmetries, thanks to the
skillful use of brick and travertine, soberly dosed with polychrome marble.
Towards the bridge, a new section was added at the wing on Via Zanardelli. The
architect, with a successful and very unique formal solution, pierced the
corner in an elegant double Serlian, surmounted by a linteled loggia, providing
to the spaces for public use (the Grand Salon, the Great Library) a magnificent
view of the river, of the new bridge, of the new district of Prati di Castello”
(Sito web della Fondazione Primoli - www.fondazioneprimoli.it)
Napoleonic
Museum
Donated to
the city in 1927 by Giuseppe Primoli (1851/1927), son of Pietro Primoli and
Charlotte Bonaparte. He was the grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of
Napoleon Bonaparte, who moved to Rome in 1807
Napoleon,
however, never set foot in Rome
Three distinct phases:
1)
Napoleonic period
2) Roman
period after the fall of Napoleon
3) Second
Empire
Room
I - The First Empire
Portraits
of “Napoleon” by Joseph Chabord (1786/1848)
“Elisa
Bonaparte Baciocchi and her daughter Elisa” by François
Gerard (1770/1837)
“Empress
Josephine” and “Letizia Bonaparte Ramolino” by Robert
Lefèvre (1755/1830)
Room
II - The First Empire
Portrait of
“Lucien Bonaparte” by François-Xavier Fabre
(1766/1837)
Room
III - The Second Empire
“Napoleon
III” and “The Empress Eugenie” by the German Franz-Xavier
Winterhalter (1805/73), famous for his ability to represent
realistically and in detail the folds of clothing and hairstyles details
Room
IV - The King of Rome, son of Napoleon and Marie Louise of Austria
“The Duke
of Reichstadt” by Luigi Schiavonetti (1765/1810)
Curved
saber that belonged to Napoleon and the Duke of Reichstadt awarded at birth
with the title of King of Rome. He died at age 21 and was never able to reign
over Rome
Room
V - The Roman Republic
Room
VI - Pauline Bonaparte
“Bust of
Pauline” in 1805/07 by Antonio Canova
(1757/1822)
“Pauline
Bonaparte” by the Flemish artist François-Joseph Kinson
(1771/1839)
Plaster
cast of the breasts of Pauline Bonaparte
Room
VII - The Kingdom of Naples
Jewelry of
Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister and Queen of Naples
“Julia
Clary and her daughters Zenaide and Charlotte” by Jean-Baptiste
Wicar (1762/1834)
Room
VIII - Watercolors and caricatures
Room
IX - Zenaide and Carlotta
“Zenaide”
and “Charlotte Bonaparte” by Jacques-Louis David
(1748/1825)
Room
X - Lucien Bonaparte
Room
XI - The “Roman” branch of the Bonaparte family
“Charlotte
Bonaparte Gabrielli” as a farmer by Jean-Baptiste Wicar
(1762/1834)
Room
XII - Giuseppe Primoli and Matilde Bonaparte
In the
museum there are also refined pieces of furniture, jewelery and miniatures
LIBRARY
30,000
volumes of history, literature and French art and valuable collection of
photographsof the end of the nineteenth century
MUSEO MARIO PRAZ
Mario Praz Museum
One of the
few Italian historic house museums: collection of about 1,200 pieces of
furniture and works of art assembled by the famous Anglicist, critic and Roman
essayist Mario Praz (1896/1982)
He was an
avid collector and put together his collection of art pieces in more than sixty
years of research
He lived
from 1934 to 1969 at Palazzo Ricci
in Via Monserrato and in this building from 1969 to 1982, the year of death
The house
was bought by the state in 1986 and the museum opened to the public in 1995
Entrance hall, three rooms of exhibitions,
gallery, bedroom, dining room and corridor
“Head”
maybe by Antonio Canova (1757/1822) and works by
Italian, French, Austrian, Swiss and German including:
“Portrait
of Princess Vittorina Spinola near the bust of Augustus d'Arenberg” 1792 by the
Swiss Jacques Sablet (1749/1803)
“View of
Cava near Salerno” by Anton Sminck Pitloo
(1791/1837) Dutch painter who lived mainly in Rome and Naples. He was a leading
exponent of the School of Posillipo and is considered a precursor of
Impressionism
More
than 400 sheets of watercolors, prints and drawings are exhibited on rotation
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