Early
sixteenth century for the Calcagni family
Mistakenly attributed to Giovanni Lippi aka Nanni di Baccio
Bigio (about 1513/68)
The
property of the palace passed in 1577 to the Ricci family and they still own it
It was
expanded in 1634 with the FAÇADE ON VIA GIULIA
On the FAÇADE
ON PIAZZA DE’ RICCI there are traces of frescoes by Polidoro Caldara aka Polidoro da Caravaggio (about 1495/1543) and Maturino da Firenze (?/1528)
It is the
only palace, with Palazzo Milesi, where there are remains of the many frescoes
that used to adorn the façades of many buildings of Rome at the beginning of
the sixteenth century
“Polidoro
was an original summoner of the ancient times who proposed a modern
interpretation of the spirit of classical Rome and gave rise to a large
repertoire of ideas and motifs that had inexhaustible fortune throughout the
course of 1500s and found their self-definition as 'martial manner' of painting”
(Carlo Bertelli, Giuliano Briganti, Antonio Giuliano)
The
frescoes were restored at the end of 1800 by Luigi
Fontana (1827/1908) who repainted them copying from seventeenth-century
engravings (the added sections were recently removed) and painted second and
third floors completely new
In a room
on the first floor frescoes “Virtue” of the end of 1500s
The Roman
art collector Mario Praz (1896/1982) lived in this palace from 1934 to 1969
St. John in Ayno
Adjacent to
Palazzo Ricci with a SMALL RENAISSANCE FAÇADE
It was
first mentioned by sources on 1186 as Sancto Johanni in Aginae
There is
mystery about the origin of the name, perhaps a reference to the lamb (agnello) that St. John the Baptist is
commonly associated with
It was
deconsecrated in 1895 and used as a warehouse for building materials
Since 1996
it is owned and seat of the services company Ayno Videoconferencing
