Palazzo Caprini

Facade of the Palazzo Caprini. Engraving from the first half of the 16th century.

The Palazzo Caprini , also known as House of Raphael (Casa di Raffaello), was a palace in the district of Borgo in Rome , at the now-defunct Piazza Scossacavalli.

Building history

The palazzo was built from 1508 by Donato Bramante for the papal protonotary Adriano Caprini, who died in 1510, and was the model for many palaces of the 16th century. Donato Bramante created a palace that was very original at the time and strongly oriented towards ancient architecture. The rather small building was divided into two floors, a massive, rusticated base floor with Botteghen (sales rooms) and a regularly windowed piano nobile (bel étage), which was given elegance by a half-column structure in Doric order.

In 1517 Raffaello Sanzio acquired the Palazzo Caprini, in which he lived until his death. The palazzo was later integrated into the construction of the Palazzo dei Convertendi . The facade of Bramante disappeared, but the interior of Raphael was preserved. This palace was demolished in 1937 during the construction of Via della Conciliazione and rebuilt in 1938 on the new street (no. 32-36). This current palazzo is an extra-territorial area of the Holy See .

aftermath

Giulio Romano continued the idea of a palace with shops and rustics, developed using the example of the Palazzo Caprini, when building the Palazzo Maccarini (1535, today Palazzo Di Brazza ).

Even Andrea Palladio was influenced in his early palaces from the Palazzo Caprini.

Individual evidence

↑ Elisabeth Heil: Windows as a means of design on palace facades of the Italian early and high renaissance (= studies on art history . Volume 92 ). Georg Olms Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-487-09959-4 , ISSN 0175-9558 , p. 374 ff . (561 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Wundram, Reclams Art Guide Italy, Vol. V (Rome and Latium), p. 366.
↑ Bussagli: Rome - Art and Architecture , p. 405.

literature

Anton Henze : Rome and Latium. Art monuments and museums (= Reclams Art Guide Italy. Vol. 5 = Reclams Universal Library . 8678). 4th, revised edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-008679-5 .
Marco Bussagli (Ed.): Rome - Art & Architecture . Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2258-1 .
Werner Müller, Gunther Vogel: dtv atlas on architecture . 5th edition. DTV, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-03021-6 .

Web links

Rebuilt Palazzo dei Convertendi (Italian)
View of the Palazzo

41.902611 12.460611Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 9.4 " N , 12 ° 27 ′ 38.2" E

[1] Elisabeth Heil: Windows as a means of design on palace facades of the Italian early and high renaissance (= studies on art history . Volume 92 ). Georg Olms Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-487-09959-4 , ISSN 0175-9558 , p. 374 ff . (561 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Wundram, Reclams Art Guide Italy, Vol. V (Rome and Latium), p. 366.

[3] Bussagli: Rome - Art and Architecture , p. 405.