Palazzo Abatellis
The Palazzo Abatellis , also called Palazzo Patella , is a palace in Palermo . It is located in the Kalsa district on Via Alloro and is now home to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia , Sicily's largest art museum.
The palace was commissioned as a private residence in 1490 by Francesco Abatellis, a high dignitary of King Ferdinand II . The builder was the well-known Sicilian architect Matteo Carnelivari .
Because of Abatellis two marriages with Elisabetta and Maria Solero Toddi emerged no children, he left the building the convent of Dominican nuns, which took advantage of 1526-1943. The palace was expanded twice, a church was added on the eastern side and an extension for the convent on the southern side. Partly destroyed by a bomb attack in 1943, the building was restored after the end of the war under the direction of Carlo Scarpa and the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia furnished with works of art from the Middle Ages to modern times.
The two-story palace in the Catalan late Gothic style is laid out in a square. You enter the entrance hall through a richly decorated portal, from which you can overlook the large inner courtyard. This is closed on one side by a two-story loggia. Characteristic for this are colonnades with wide round arches and graceful columns.
literature
- Brigit Carnabuci: Sicily. Greek temples, Roman villas, Norman cathedrals and baroque cities in the center of the Mediterranean (= DuMont art travel guide ). 6th, updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-4385-6 .
- Otto Gärtner: Sicily. 8th edition, completely revised and redesigned. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-8297-1047-X , p. 329.
Web links
- Information about the palace on the Sicily Region website has not been updated since 2013.
- Floor plans (the links lead to emptiness)
Coordinates: 38 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 16 ″ E