Palazzo Cenci Maccarani di Brazzà
Roman Palaces
Description
The palace of the old patrician family Stati was begun between 1520 and 1524. Scholars are sure that Giulio Romano was the architect. On the facade with five window axis, the influence of Bramante's Palazzo Caprini, created between 1501 and 1510, is evident; but contrary to the Caprini or its direct successor Palazzo Caffarelli Vidoni, the two upper floors with flat pilasters lack any tectonic characteristics. The ground floor bossage is mannered, the stores' huge keystones reach the mezzanine windows. On the left lateral side, only two window axis have been completed due to the lack of a regular building area.
In 1786, the palace was property of the Marchese Maccarani. It then passed to the di Brazzà family, was inherited to the Udine hospital by the last di Brazzà in 1964. The Italian state acquired the building, let it restore in the early 1980s and made representative Senate offices out of it. In the piano nobile, two painted ceilings are preserved; the sala still has a frieze by Luzio Romano.
Literature
Frommel, Christoph Luitpold: Der römische Palastbau der Hochrenaissance, Tübingen 1973, tom. II, pp. 322-326
Borsi, Francesco, Quinterio, Francesco, Magnanimi, Giuseppina: Palazzo Cenci, Roma 1989
