Palazzo Natoli

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The Palazzo Natoli is a baroque palace in the center of Palermo . He was 1765 for the Marchese Vincenzo Natoli , a 1756 by Charles III. built judges elevated to the nobility on Gran Corte . The palazzo was renovated in the 2000s and converted into apartments that are now used as a boutique hotel .

Building description

The two-storey palazzo is located in a narrow alley next to the church of SS. Salvatore , the entrance was therefore moved to the end of the facade, where it overlooks a small square-like extension of the street behind the church. The overbuilding of an existing building is unusual: only the upper floor of the first three window axes actually belongs to the palazzo, and underneath is an older simple building with two low floors as the “ground floor”.

The monumental entrance portal is adorned by a display wall made of yellowish tuff stone framed by pilasters . The slightly protruding entrance is flanked by columns, above the door there is a mascherone , an inscription to the left and right of it names the builder: VINC.NATOLI RCPPERFECIT, the date MDCCLXV (1765 in Roman numerals ) can be seen under the mask . At the top, the display wall is closed off by a triglyph frieze on which a continuous balcony rests on the upper floor. Three floor-to-ceiling windows lead onto the balcony, the two outer ones are crowned by triangular gables, the middle gable is designed as a split gable and houses a richly decorated cartouche with the Natoli coat of arms.

Inside, a monumental two-flight staircase leads from the entrance to the representative rooms on the first floor, here are important frescoes by Gioacchino Martorana , etc. a. an Assunta and an Adoration of Vincent Ferrer .

literature

  • Aldo Gerbino: Palazzo Natoli. Un itinerario settecentesco e un pittore contemporaneo. Ed. Sciascia, Caltanissetta 1994, ISBN 0001018140
  • Diana Malignaggi: La pittura del Settecento a Palermo. Attività divulgativa e didattica 1978. Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici, Palermo 1979
  • Giulia Sommariva: Palazzi nobiliari di Palermo. D. Flaccovio, Palermo 2004, ISBN 8877585986
  • Cesare De Seta, Maria Antonietta Spadaro and Sergio Troisi: Palermo città d'arte: guida ai monumenti di Palermo e Monreale. Ed. Ariete, Palermo 1998
  • Maria Concetta Di Natale: La pittura dell'Ottocento in Sicilia: tra committenza, critica d'arte e collezionismo. Flaccovio, Palermo 2005
  • Giovanni Evangelista Di Blasi: Storia cronologica dei vicere, luogotenenti e presidenti del Regno di Sicilia, giuramento del 18 September 1761.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Una "pearl" in the cuore del Cassaro - Palazzo Natoli è inserito in the "Carta del rischio". Patrimonio SOS, April 13, 2006 (Italian, accessed December 26, 2015).
  2. ^ Un Altro Restauro Importante: il Palazzo Natoli. Amo Palermo, June 8, 2009 (Italian) ( Memento from June 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ).
  3. ↑ cf. Restauri: Palazzo Natoli . Provenzano architetti website (Italian, accessed December 27, 2015).
  4. ↑ cf. Thierry Larère: Photograph of Mascherone (2014) on Flickr ( memento from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ cf. Maria di Natale: La pittura dell'Ottocento in Sicilia: tra committenza, critica d'arte e collezionismo. Flaccovio 2005.

Coordinates: 38 ° 6 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 32.6 ″  E