Palazzo della Cancelleria
Palazzo della Cancelleria | |
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General information | |
Location | Rome, Italy |
Coordinates | 41°53′48.07″N 12°28′17.48″E / 41.8966861°N 12.4715222°E |
The Palazzo della Cancelleria (Palace of the Chancellery, referring to the former Apostolic Chancery of the Pope) is a Renaissance palace in Rome, Italy, situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori, in the rione of Parione. It was built 1489–1513[1] by Baccio Pontelli and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder[2] as a palace for Raffaele Cardinal Riario, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, and is regarded as the earliest Renaissance palace in Rome.
The Palazzo houses the Papal Chancellery, is an
History
The Cancelleria was built for Raffaele Cardinal Riario who held the post of Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church to his powerful uncle, Pope Sixtus IV. The rumor was that the funds came from a single night's winnings at gaming.
In 1517, the newly completed Palazzo was seized by Pope
From 1753 the vice chancellor was the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, the Jacobite Henry IX and I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the late 17th century Christina, former Queen of Sweden, resided here.
During the
In 2015, it was the residence of retired, and now deceased,
Architecture
The Palazzo della Cancelleria was the first
The facade, with its rhythm of flat doubled
The bone-colored
Art
The largest reception room, the Salone d'Onore on the piano nobile, has vast murals in fresco that Giorgio Vasari completed in a mere 100 days in 1547. The room is therefore named the Sala dei Cento Giorni ("Room of 100 Days"). He boasted of this accomplishment to Michelangelo, who responded "Si vede" ("It shows").
They were commissioned by
The Cancelleria Reliefs are two significant if incomplete 1st-century AD reliefs that were discovered buried at the site when the palazzo was being built. They are now in the Vatican Museums. They were apparently carved to glorify the Emperor Domitian (r. 81-96), then partly recarved to feature Nerva after his accession.
Music
In the palazzo a small private theatre was installed by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, and in the later 17th century the Palazzo became a center of musical performance in Rome.
At the time when Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni lived there as vice-chancellor, the Palazzo della Cancelleria became an important center of the musical life of Rome. Between 1694 and 1705 several oratories by Alessandro Scarlatti and various cantatas for Christmas were performed here for the first time. In 1709 Ottoboni also had a theater built on a project by the architect Filippo Juvarra, which was removed after his death (February 28, 1740). It was in this theater that at least one gathering of the Accademia degli Arcadi was held on the occasion of Christmas 1712 to celebrate the child Jesus.[6]
References
- ^ a b Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (accessed: 2011-07-22)
- ^ FROMMEL, Christop. Architettura del Rinascimento Italiano. Milano, Skyra, 2009, p. 150-154
- ^ "Exterior view by ARCHITECT, Italian".
- ^ "In Search Of Cardinal Bernard Law". wgbh.org. 3 August 2015.
- ISBN 1-4021-7473-X.
- ^ Storia dell'Accademia degli Arcadi, p. 19 (Italian)
External links
- Palazzo della Cancelleria Apostolica
- The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the Palazzo (p. 370-4)
Media related to Palazzo della Cancelleria (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by Palazzo Borghese |
Landmarks of Rome Palazzo della Cancelleria |
Succeeded by Chigi Palace |