Built in
1495
Rebuilt
incorporating earlier buildings in the years 1617/18 by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629) for Monsignor Diomede Varese
At the end
of the seventeenth century it was acquired by the Atti family, and, when their
line ended in 1770, it was occupied by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide
In the last
century it was bought by the Mancini Jacobini family
“Maderno
is remembered chiefly for two Roman works: the façade of S. Susanna and the
completion of St. Peter's in the Vatican, but the catalog of his work is large
and complex, and includes not only religious buildings. He was indeed one of
the protagonists the process of renewal of residential and civil architecture
of the early seventeenth century, as evidenced by his work in several Roman
palaces. (...) Many attributive issues are still open: the fundamental point of
reference is the 1971 monograph of Hibbard, the conclusions of which were, in
some cases, updated and corrected by more recent studies (...). Hibbard had
spread to the most the catalog of his works, intentionally confirming the
attribution of numerous buildings, religious and civil, in which the actual
contribution - if any - of Maderno was mademore complex by the intervention of
several artists“ (Maria Cristina Loi - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Treccani)
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