place

Palazzo Torlonia

Buildings and structures completed in 1496Houses completed in the 15th centuryPalaces in RomeRenaissance architecture in RomeRome R. XIV Borgo
Palazzo Castellesi September 2015 1
Palazzo Castellesi September 2015 1

Palazzo Torlonia (also known as the Palazzo Giraud, Giraud-Torlonia or Castellesi) is a 16th-century Renaissance town house in Via della Conciliazione, Rome, Italy. Built for Cardinal Adriano Castellesi da Corneto from 1496, the architect was Andrea Bregno, although others have attributed the design to Bramante.The style of architecture was influenced by that of the papal chancery, the Palazzo della Cancelleria, one of Rome's first Renaissance palaces, which had been completed a few years earlier. The palazzo's arcaded inner courtyard has been attributed to Raphael.In 1504, before its completion, the Cardinal (who had fallen from papal favor) presented the palazzo to King Henry VII of England. The English king Henry VIII later handed it to Lorenzo Campeggio, England's last Cardinal Protector. He lived in the unfinished palazzo from 1519 to 1524. Following England's split from the Church of Rome, it remained in possession of the Campeggio family until 1609. From 1609 until 1635, it was owned by the Borghese family. In 1760, it was purchased by the French Giraud banking family. In 1820, it was purchased by the Torlonia family, whose name it retains along with the family's coat of arms above its great portal.Today, the palace faces the wide boulevard named Via della Conciliazione, however, this is the result of 20th century monumental Fascist concept intended to provide an imposing approach to St Peter's Basilica. Originally, the palazzo formed the north side of a small square, the Piazza Scossacavalli, and is today (with the Palazzo dei Penitenzieri) one of the two surviving buildings of it, and the only historic palace in Borgo which has remained untouched during the works for the construction of Via della Conciliazione. Palazzo Torlonia, together with the Church of Santa Maria in Transpontina and Palazzo Latmiral (a 19th-century building placed between them), are out of axis with the new avenue, their alignment coinciding with that of the destroyed Borgo Nuovo road. As of 2015, the palazzo remains the property of the Torlonia family.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Palazzo Torlonia (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Palazzo Torlonia
Vicolo dell'Inferriata, Rome Municipio Roma I

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Palazzo TorloniaContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 41.9026 ° E 12.461 °
placeShow on map

Address

Palazzo Torlonia

Vicolo dell'Inferriata
00193 Rome, Municipio Roma I
Lazio, Italy
mapOpen on Google Maps

linkWikiData (Q3889821)
linkOpenStreetMap (1624311)

Palazzo Castellesi September 2015 1
Palazzo Castellesi September 2015 1
Share experience

Nearby Places

Palazzo Caprini
Palazzo Caprini

Palazzo Caprini was a Renaissance palazzo in Rome, Italy, in the Borgo rione between Piazza Scossacavalli and via Alessandrina (also named Borgo Nuovo). It was designed by Donato Bramante around 1510, or a few years before. It was also known as Palazzo di Raffaello, or Raphael's House, since the artist had bought it in 1517 and lived there until his death three years later, although by then he was planning a much larger new palazzo elsewhere. In the late 16th century the building, already decayed and crumbling, underwent a total renovation and constituted the core of the much larger Palazzo dei Convertendi, and its garden house was destroyed in 1848. The appearance of the main facade is known from an etching by Antoine Lafréry and a partial sketch attributed to Andrea Palladio.The palace had a façade with five bays and two levels, with rustication (using stucco) on the lower floor which, as often in Rome, was let out to shops. The upper floor had windows divided by double Doric columns, surmounted by a complete entablature. It was highly influential, providing a standard model for the integration of the rusticated ground floor with arched openings, characteristic of 15th-century Florentine palaces alla antica such as the Pitti Palace, with the classical orders. The decorative inclusion of large rusticated voussoirs and keystone instead of a lintel over the flat top of the lower rectangular openings in the end shop fronts was also a device with a long future. The apparent strength of a blind arched arcade with emphatic voussoirs on the rusticated ground storey gave reassuring support to the upper storey's paired Doric columns standing on rusticated piers, set against a smooth wall. The many buildings providing variations of the design include Somerset House in London.