Palazzo Isnello

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The Palazzo Isnello , also called Palazzo dates d'Isnello or Palazzo Sant´Antimo al Cassaro, is a late baroque palace in Palermo .

Palazzo Isnello (Palermo)

Building history

Located in the historic Kalsa district on Piazza Borsa, Baron Paolo Ferreri di Pettineo had the predecessor of the Palazzo built in the 16th century. Between 1748 and 1750 , the building was extended to its present form by an unknown architect on behalf of Vincenzo Schedules, Count of Isnello and Prince of Baucina. The facade shows a distinct neoclassical influence that gradually spread to Sicily towards the middle of the 18th century .

In the 19th century, the orientalist and historian Michele Amari lived in the building , who was forced into exile in France because of his revolutionary writings against the Bourbons .

In the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and especially after the war damage in 1943 and the severe earthquake on September 7, 2002 , the palace underwent various structural changes.

Vito D'Anna: “Apotheosis Palermos” in the Palazzo Isnello (Palermo)

The decoration of the interiors

The ceilings of several rooms in the piano nobile were decorated with gilded stucco and multicolored porcelain after 1750 . ( 1760 ) Vito D'Anna was commissioned to decorate the palace with frescoes . Together with his brother-in-law Francesco Sozzi, he frescoed several rooms with different decorative elements and figures. The over- portraits come from unknown painters. The most famous fresco of the palace is the Apotheosis of Palermos , a masterpiece of the Rococo in Sicily by Vito D'Anna on the ceiling of the ballroom. The vault in the Salone delle Quattro Stagioni was decorated by Francesco Sozzi with the fresco The Four Seasons .

literature

  • Giulia Sommariva pi: Palazzi nobiliari a Palermo . Flaccovio Edizione, Palermo 2004, ISBN 88-7758-598-6 .
  • Rita Cedrini, Giovanni Tortorici Monteaperto: Repertorio delle dimore nobili e notabili nella Sicilia del XVIII secolo . Grafill, Palermo 2008, ISBN 88-8207-217-7 , pp. 512 ff .
  • Citti Siracusano: La pittura del Settecento in Sicilia . De Luca Editore, Rome 1986.
  • Cesare De Seta, Maria Antonietta Spadaro, Sergio Troisi: Palermo città d'arte: guida ai monumenti di Palermo e Monreale . Kalos Editore, Palermo 1998, ISBN 88-89224-00-2 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 38 ° 6 '58.4 "  N , 13 ° 21' 54.1"  E