PALACE OF JACOPO DA BRESCIA

PALAZZO DI JACOPO DA BRESCIA

Via dei Corridori

About 1519 maybe by Raffaello Sanzio (1483/1520) for Jacopo da Brescia the doctor of Leo X Medici (1513/21)

The palace was destroyed in 1936 for the opening of Via della Conciliazione and the façade was moved here from Via Borgo Nuovo

The same happened to the CASA DI FEBO BRIGOTTI (Febo Brigotti's House), the doctor of Paul III Farnese (1534/49). The façade of the Casa is now adjacent to the Palace of Jacopo da Brescia on Via dei Corridori

It was inspired by the neighboring and now completely destroyed Palazzo Caprini by Donato Bramante

“The upper floors are one of the first examples in Rome of the use of a curtain of exposed brick (in this case coupled with lava stone), in a representative building. The tight side on Borgo Sant'Angelo was solved by Raphael with a Serlian window of which he was one of the first designers” (Emanuela Montelli)

PALACE OF THE ONES ABOUT TO CONVERT

PALAZZO DEI CONVERTENDI

Via della Conciliazione 34

Built as PALAZZO CAPRINI in the years 1501/10 by Donato Bramante (1444/1514) for the Spinola family from Genoa

Originally it used to face the now disappeared Piazza Scossacavalli and it was also known as PALACE OF RAPHAEL because it was the house where Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) (1483/1520) lived in the last years of his life and where he died

As the nearby Palazzo Branconio Dell'Aquila by Raphael it became a founding prototype of Renaissance civil architecture that had many imitations and also inspired Andrea Palladio

In the second half of the sixteenth century a new building was built that incorporated the old which was known in the seventeenth century as Palazzo dei Convertendi for the hospice established here by Cardinal Girolamo Gastaldi in favor of the heretics who wanted to become Catholics and here were subjected to a renewed catechesis

In 1938 it was destroyed and rebuilt rotated of 90° with only the central balcony and the ashlar around the door that resemble the original

It is owned by the Holy See and it is home to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches