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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

LANCELLOTTI PALACE ON PIAZZA NAVONA

PALAZZO LANCELLOTTI A PIAZZA NAVONA
1552 Pirro Ligorio (about 1513/83) for Cardinal Ludovico de Torres Archbishop of Monreale, who gave a diplomatic contribution to the victory in the Battle of Lepanto connecting the Papal States to the other Christian powers
In mid-1600 the family passed to the Lancellotti family
FRESCOES
“Allegories and stories of Rinaldo and Armida” 1621/23 by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666) and Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)