Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne

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  • Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
  • Type: palazzi
    Date: 1532 / 1536
    Period: Cinquecento (Some important artists like Michelangelo, Raffaello and Bramante brought the new ideas of Classicism)

    Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 141
    (Centro Storico)
    Zone: Rione VI Parione


Location and History

Description

  • Realization by

Baldassarre Peruzzi
  • Baldassarre Peruzzi
  • (Architetto)
    realizzò il palazzo nel 1536, quando ricostruì l’edificio dei Massimo, gravemente danneggiato nel Sacco di Roma del 1527
Battista Rossi (Architetto)
Giovanni Battista Solari (Scultore)

  • Daniele Ricciarelli said Da Volterra
  • (Pittore)
    con il notevole soffitto affrescato raffigurante le Storie di Quinto Fabio Massimo, leggendario antenato della famiglia Massimo (o Massimi)
Anonimo (Pittore) con il dipinto "Madonna con Bambino in trono tra san Giovanni Battista, san Lorenzo, santo Stefano e sant'Antonio da Padova" databile nel periodo 1485 - 1499.

Other:

Giulio Pippi said Giulio Romano (Pittore), Nicola Di Antonio (Pittore), Piero Bonaccorsi said Perin Del Vaga (Pittore)

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