1588/91 Giacomo Della Porta
(1533/1602) for the Ruggeri family
The stretch
of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in front of the palace corresponds to a stretch
of the Via Papalis, the way the popes used to get from the Vatican to
their palace near the Basilica of St. John Lateran or during important
occasions and processions
When, from
1420 onwards, the popes went to live in the Vatican, the Via Papalis was
tread by them in the days after the election to take symbolically possession as
bishops of Rome of the throne in the Lateran Cathedral
HALLS OF
HONOR and LOGGIA
“Fake
painted tapestries with scenes of the Roman consul Gnaeus Pompey taken from
Plutarch” and “Allegorical figures” painted at the end of 1500s by the brothers
Giovanni Alberti (1558/1601) and Cherubino Alberti (1553/1615) for Pompeo Ruggeri
TWO ROOMS
ON THE SECOND FLOOR
Frescoed
frieze “Cycle with alternate stories of the Old Testament with allegorical
figures” also by the Alberti brothers and Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)
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