Palazzo Lancellotti
Roman Palaces
Description
The Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari is one of the few Roman palaces that is still inhabited by the builder's heirs. In 1491, the medical Scipione Lancellotti, who saved Pope Julius II from death in 1511, acquired a building area, later enlarged by his sons Orazio and Aurelio, but is was not before 1591 when another Scipione Lancellotti began with the building of a palace. After his death in 1598, his nephew cardinal Orazio Lancellotti completed the palace and exhibited his large collection of antique sculptures in the courtyard.
The palace was designed Francesco Capriani da Volterra and the austere facade resembles Palazzo Cardelli, created by the same architect. When he died, Carlo Maderno became his successor and completed the staircase and the facade on the Piazza Lancellotti. Around 1617, Domenechino dal Totti created a new portal with two columns on semicircular pediments.
In 1620, Agostino Tassi was charged by cardinal Orazio ausswith the decoration of the Sala dei Palafrenieri. His outstanding trompe-l'-oeil frescoes are preserved as well as another frieze in the piano nobile. From 1621 to 1635, Guercino and Lanfranco created the pictorial decoration of Tiberio Lancellotti's ground floor apartment.
Literature
Cavazzini, Patrizia: Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari, Roma 1998
Links
Fries von Tassi im piano nobile
