Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua

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Street front of Via Stampatori 4
Inner courtyard of the Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua

The Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua in Via Stampatori 4 in downtown Turin is one of the few examples of Renaissance architecture from the time before the Baroque urban renewal of the capital of Savoy. The simultaneous frescoes on the street facade and in the inner courtyard are remarkable .

history

The Savoyard finance minister A. Solaro or the abbot Filiberto Scaglia di Verrua started the construction in 1585, which soon passed into the possession of Giacomo Solaro, who in 1603 commissioned the painter Antonio Parentani from Brescia with the frescoes of the facade and the inner courtyard. The architect GM Garabello modified the building on behalf of the Scaglia di Verrua family between 1650 and 1665. In 1762 the Verrua expanded the complex with tenement houses on today's Via Garibaldi and in 1784 on the corner of Via Stampatori and Via Barbaroux. The palace passed to Count Raimondo Balbo Bertone di Sambuy in the eighteenth century through the noble family of San Martino della Motta. The street block with the palace suffered severe damage during World War II.

shape

While the street facade is architecturally simple, with the exception of a coat of arms cartouche above the entrance and the decoration is limited to fresco painting, the walls of the inner courtyard open up to loggias , the intermediate surfaces of which are also frescoed. The program of paintings includes landscapes, allegories , ancient deities.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So the documentation: Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento Casa Città: Beni culturali ambientali nel Comune di Torino , Vol. 1, Società degli ingegneri e degli architetti in Torino, Turin 1984, p. 298, here quoted from: Information page of the Turiner Museum .
  2. ↑ so in the Italian Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Lt. Italian Wikipedia.
  4. ↑ So the above. Documentation of the Polytecnico.

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