Palazzo Caffarelli
The Palazzo Caffarelli , also Villa Caffarelli, is a palace in Rome . It is located on the Capitol Hill above the Tarpei Rock . Today it is part of the Capitoline Museums .
history
Giovanni Pietro Caffarelli , a courtier of Charles V , was given a plot of land on Capitol Hill on the occasion of the Emperor's visit to Rome. His son Ascanio Caffarelli had a family palace built from 1576 to 1583 by Gregorio Canonica , a pupil of Vignola . A remnant of the Capitoline Temple was built over.
In 1817 the Prussian embassy secretary Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen rented rooms in the palace. From 1854 the entire palace was owned by Prussia as an embassy building and from 1871 became the German embassy in Italy.
In 1829 the Archaeological Correspondence Institute , today's German Archaeological Institute Rome , was founded, which in 1877 was given a new building in the neo- Pompeian style on the grounds of the palace. The complex also included the German Hospital and a Protestant chapel. At the end of the First World War, the Palazzo Caffarelli was expropriated as German property and in 1925 the Museo Mussolini was established there. Since 2005 the palace has been part of the newly designed Capitoline Museums together with the neighboring Palazzo Clementino as Palazzo Clementino-Caffarelli .
building
The building adjoins the courtyard of the Conservator's Palace and has a simple, three-story facade on the south side facing Via delle Pile, which from a distance defines the panorama of the Capitoline Hill. There is a large terrace in front of the palace above Via del Teatro Marcello. The building complex includes two gardens, the Giardino Caffarelli and the Giardino Romano .
See also
- Palazzo Vidoni Caffarelli in the Rione Sant'Eustachio
literature
- Hartwig Fischer : A Wilhelmine total work of art on the Capitol . Hermann Prell and the establishment of the throne room in the German Embassy in Rome 1894–1899. Mewe, Lörrach 1998, ISBN 3-9806066-1-9 ( dissertation University of Bonn 1993).
- Golo Maurer: Prussia on the Tarpeian Rock. Chronicle of a foreseeable fall. The history of the German Capitol 1817–1918. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1728-7 .
- Anton Henze : Rome and Latium. Art monuments and museums (= Reclams Art Guide Italy. Vol. 5 = Universal Library 8678). 4th, revised edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-008679-5 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 33.6 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 54.7" E