In 1565 the
Verospi family bought a house and later the building was expanded and renovated
by Girolamo Rainaldi (1570/1655)
Completed
in about 1610 by Onorio Longhi (1568/1619) who
made courtyard, loggia and gallery
Restored at
the beginning of the eighteenth century by Alessandro
Specchi (1668/1729)
At the end
of 1800s it was raised of one floor
On the
front there is a plaque commemorating the stay of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792/1822)
The palace
belonged in the nineteenth century to the Torlonia family and since 1902 it
belongs to the Italian bank CREDITO ITALIANO (now Unicredit)
LOGGIA
Frescos “Apollo and the Gods of Mount
Olympus” 1607/08
spectacular masterpiece by Francesco Albani
(1578/1660) for Cardinal Fabrizio Verospi
“The
feverish knowledge of the almost mythical, to him, Raphael is transformed,
because of the obvious imitation of compositional scheme, in the decoration of
the gallery of Palazzo Verospi. Francesco Albani there follows the partition
wall and the same scenes from the Loggia of Raphael in the Farnesina Villa. But
the center rectangle of the vault (between Hesperus and Lucifer, Apollo goes
from Spring and Summer to Autumn and Winter to signify the Allegory of Time) is
a newer and yet nostalgic temptation to be returned to the ancient flavor of a
Hellenistic cameo. Precious memories of culture and classical ardor, steeped in
the absolute modernity of a new landscape” (Antonio Boschetto - Dizionario
Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
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