Palazzo Chigi-Odescalchi
Palazzo Chigi-Odescalchi is a palace in Rome at 80 Piazza Sancti Apostoli.
history
The palace was built to a design by the architect Carlo Maderno for the Colonna noble family and was rebuilt in 1665 by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini in collaboration with Carlo Fontana . In 1661 it was acquired by Pope Alexander VII of the Chigi family.
The palace has belonged to the Odescalchi family since 1745 and is still owned by them today.
From 1699 to 1701, Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien , widow of the King of Poland John III, lived in the palace . Sobieski with three sons and numerous entourage. At that time, the palace became a meeting place for Roman artists, including Pope Clement XI. visited the queen in the palace.
In the second half of the 19th century, Count Livio III Odescalchi married the Pole Zofia Branicka († 1886), and again the palace became the meeting place for the Poles living in Rome. The palace fell victim to a fire in 1887 but was soon rebuilt.
literature
- C. Norberg - Schulz, Architettura Barocca , Martellago (Venezia), Electa, 1998, ISBN 88-435-2461-5 .
- Marco Bussagli, Rome, art and architecture , Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2258-1 , p. 519.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 53 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 58" E