Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi
The Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi (also Palazzo Rospigliosi ) is a palace on Via XXIV Maggio 43 in Rome . It contains one of the largest private art collections in Rome. The building got its current name from Pope Clement IX. who took it over for his nephew, Giambattista Rospigliosi and his wife Maria Camilla Pallavicini. The Quirinal Palace and the Scuderie del Quirinale are adjacent.
Building history
The palace was built from 1605 by order of Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese , a nephew of Pope Paul V , on the ruins of the thermal baths of Emperor Constantine on the Quirinal, still in the Renaissance style. Before the construction of Flaminio Ponzio could begin, the sloping site was terraced in three stages by the garden architect Giovanni Vasanzio . Each of these steps was provided with a pavilion in which there were sculptures and which were decorated with frescoes.
The Casino Rospigliosi was built with marble blocks from the Baths of Constantine, which were completely destroyed during construction. It houses the famous “ Aurora fresco ” by Guido Reni , completed in 1614 , one of his main works. The walls of the adjoining rooms are frescoed by Paulus Bril (Four Seasons), Giovanni Baglione and Domenico Passignano . The loggia in front of a semicircular fountain on the second terrace is decorated with the muses by Orazio Gentileschi and Agostino Tassi . The pavilion on the third terrace was destroyed in 1876 with the expansion of Via Nazionale .
After the death of Ponzio in 1613, Carlo Maderno took over the construction of the palace, whose rooms and corridors were decorated with frescoes by Paulus Bril and Guido Reni. Shortly after completion, the cardinal sold the palace complex to Giovanni Angelo Altemps, who, however, in view of the high expansion costs, sold it to the Bentivoglio family from Bologna in 1619 . Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio , chairman of the Inquisition and signatory of the judgment against Galileo Galilei in 1641 , took up residence here and had the rooms decorated between 1622 and 1627. Cardinal Giulio Mazarini ( Jules Mazarin ) took over the palace in 1641 , then became the French embassy before it came into possession of the Pallavicini Rospigliosi family in 1704. Today the palace is partly owned by the Coldiretti family, as the sale had to finance renovation work.
The pavilion
The building with a total area of 220 m² consists of a central hall, which is flanked by two smaller halls. The complex is shaped like a "C" and was laid out in the country house style of the 15th century. In the main hall there is a painting by Guido Reni with the Aurora's chariot, besides a collection of paintings marble busts and valuable sculptures are exhibited.
The Casino dell'Aurora is a loggia that deals in particular with the subject of love, death and the immortality of the soul. Here old mythological stories are reproduced in some pictures. Sixty-five paintings were kept in the three rooms of the Casino dell'Auora. In addition to religious ones, there are also depictions of landscapes and a few genre depictions or portraits.
Painting collection
The palazzo contains numerous paintings and objets d'art, such as a sarcophagus from Roman times with hunting scenes on the front. Guido Reni's Aurora painting in the Casino dell'Aurora was recreated in Carrara marble for the Methuen Memorial Music Hall . At the time of Giuseppe Vasis , who depicted the palazzo in one engraving, there was still a statue of a Roman consul in front of the building.
The Galleria Rospigliosi art collection, started by Cardinal Lazzaro Pallavicini, is significant and now includes more than 540 paintings, drawings and sculptures, including works by such important artists as Sandro Botticelli , Annibale Carracci , Sebastiano Conca , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Luca Giordano , Guercino , Lorenzo Lotto , Nicolas Poussin , Mattia Preti , Guido Reni , Mariano Rossi , Peter Paul Rubens , Andrea Sacchi and Luca Signorelli . However, the art gallery has no regular opening times.
literature
- Carlo Cresti, Claudio Rendina: The Roman villas and palaces . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8290-1347-7 , p. 264 ff .
- Il Casino dell'Aurora Pallavicini. Percorsi, immagini, riflessioni. Eliograf, Rome 1985.
- Daniela Di Castro, Anna Maria Pedrocchi, Patricia Waddy: Il Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi e la Galleria Pallavicini. Fotografia di Abbrescia Santinelli. Allemandi, Turin 1999, ISBN 88-422-0751-9 .
- Silvia Bruno: I Barberini e il loro entourage in Francia. In: I Barberini e la cultura europea del Seicento / Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History… Per cura di Lorenza Mochi Onori, Sebastian Schütze, Francesco Solinas. De Luca, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-8016-742-6 , pp. 317-330.
- Arnold Witte, Hermits in high society. Private retreats in late "Seicento" Rome. In: David R. Marshall (Ed.), Art, site and spectacle. Studies in early modern visual culture (= Melbourne Art Journal. 9/10). The Fine Arts Network, Victoria 2007, ISBN 978-0-9803807-0-5 , pp. 104-119.
Web links
- Brief description and pictures on romeartlover.it
- Official site of the Casino Aurora (English)
- Note sulle origini del giardino segreto di montecavallo (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Casino dell'Aurora Pallavicini - Roma. casinoaurorapallavicini.it, accessed on September 6, 2016 (English).
- ^ Villa Pallavicini. romasegreta.it, accessed on September 6, 2016 .
- ^ Brief Guide to the Rospigliosi-Pallavicini Palace and Garden. ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on coldiretti.it, accessed on September 6, 2016.
- ^ Casino dell'Aurora Pallavicini - Roma. casinoaurorapallavicini.it, accessed September 6, 2016 .
- ^ Illustrations in Arachne
- ^ Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi In: A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 54 " N , 12 ° 29 ′ 16.4" E