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Monday, October 30, 2017

TESTA PICCOLOMINI PALACE

Restructured after 1670 by Basilio Bricci (1621/92) and his sister Plautilla Bricci (1616/about 1701) who made a nice decoration with the arms of the Piccolomini on the windows of the main floor and the bottom of the cornice

Renovation 1718/19 by Filippo Barigioni (about 1680/1753), a pupil of Carlo Fontana for Giovanni Ferrante Testa Piccolomini

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