The Palazzo Buonaccorsi is an 18th-century aristocratic palace, now the civic museum of the town, located on Via Don Minzoni 24 in the historic center of Macerata , region of Marche , Italy.
9-510: The palace was erected on a site with some houses just inside the former medieval city walls. The Buonaccorsi family, led by Simone the Elder had risen to prominence by the mid-17th century; Simone's brother Buonaccorso (1620-1678) had become a cardinal. Simone endeavored to build a palace here, commensurate with the family's rising status. After the Simone's death in 1708, his son Raimondo continued
18-1854: A broad representation of art from the past centuries, including the following painters: Nicolò Bambini , Luigi Bartolini , Marco Benefial , Christian Berentz , Danilo Bergamo , Andrea Boscoli , Francesco Boniforti (Copy of a work by Zuccari ), Elia Bonci , Antonio Bonfigli , Domenico Bruschi , Corrado Cagli , Michelangelo Conte , Domenico Cantatore , Ugo Capocchini , Bice Castelnuovo , Rosa Catella , Domenico Corvi , Giacomo Francesco Cipper , Luigi Dania , Marco Davanzo , Giacomo Del Po , Gildo Di Segni , Carlo Dolci , Bernardi Eva Doyen , Giuseppe Fammilume , Pier Simone Fanelli , Giuseppe Ludovico Felici , Tonino Ferraioli , Carlo Firmani , Alessandro Gallucci , Gaspare Gasparrini , Pier Leone Ghezzi , Vitali Argenide Gigli , Giovanni Giorgi , Corrado Giaquinto , Giovanni di Corraduccio , Giuseppe Innocenzi , Giovanni Korompay , Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini , Johannes Lingelbach , Carlo Magini , Cortesi Giuseppe Mancini , Francesco Mancini , Giuseppe Mainini , Maratta , Giorgio Massetani , Giuseppe Mazzolini , Vincenzo Monti , Anthonis Mor , Morelli , Spada G Nardi , Elena Nobili , Orazio Orazi , Paolo Pace , Giorgio Secondo Paletti , Claudia Panciera , Corrado Pellini , Cesare Peruzzi , Mario Pierluigi , Antonio Pietroni , Francesco Podesti , Scipione Pulzone , Maria Randone , Filippo Reggiani , Gemma Rocca , Michele Rocca , Philipp Peter Roos , Linuccia Saba , Piero Sadun , Joachim von Sandrart , Santi di Tito , Sassoferrato , Antonio Scordia , Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta , Laura Spadoni , Luigi Spazzapan , Ilario Spolverini , Luigi Svecchi , Tamburini , Michele Talamè , Bruno Tano , Valeriano Trubbiani , Giulio Turcato , Emilio Vedova , Claude Joseph Vernet , and Giuseppe Zigaina . Displayed in its 19th century galleries,
27-571: A pinacoteca (painting gallery spanning works from the medieval period to modern times, and houses a carriage museum (Museo della Carrozza), as well as a library (biblioteca "Amedeo Ricci"). The palace's main floor is known for the Sala dell'Eneide (Hall of the Aeneid ); the panels display events from Virgil's epic, although one canvas above the door elaborates on the supremacy of Christian to Pagan religion. The canvases depict: The museum galleries have
36-494: The choice of the subjects and iconography for painting, including the ceiling depicting the Marriage of Ariadne and Bacchus (by Michelangelo Ricciolini and his son Niccolo) with vaults the hall decorated with a dozen rococo canvas paintings (1710-1715) on episodes from the Aeneid , painted by among the most prominent Italian artists of the time. Today the palace accommodates the "Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi" including
45-442: The family to abandon Macerata for Rome. The Buonaccorsi family returned in 1853 under Conte Flavio, and began needed refurbishments. Raimondo and Simone were mainly responsible for patronizing the construction of the palace, and the decoration of the piano nobile. Such decoration began in 1707 with paintings by Carlo Antonio Rambaldi , and quadratura by Antonio Dardani . Abbott Filippo is said to have been instrumental in deciding on
54-617: The influence of Francesco Borromini . He designed churches both in Lazio and the Marche . He designed two churches for the Oratorian order in Macerata and Cingoli . This article about an Italian architect or firm of architects is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gaspare Gasparrini Gaspare Gasparini (died 30 September 1590) was a native of Macerata . He
63-592: The museum acquired directly from the artists, Gualtiero Baynes (Macerata 1856 - Florence 1938) and Giuseppe Bonolis , a collection of works. 43°18′02.66″N 13°27′19.26″E / 43.3007389°N 13.4553500°E / 43.3007389; 13.4553500 Giovanni Battista Contini Giovanni Battista Contini (7 May 1641 – 16 October 1723) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. He trained in Rome under Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini , but imbibed
72-507: The project, aided by his brother Filippo, Abbott of San Quirico, and employing the designs of the architects Giovanni Battista Contini and Ludovico Gregorini. The palace encompassed the former Palazzo Centini and other houses at the site. Raimondo's son, also called Simone (1708-1776) would also become a cardinal. After the death of Raimondi in 1746, the family was elevated in to the Roman Patriciate by Pope Benedict XIV , leading
81-475: Was a disciple of Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta , whose style he followed, though in a less finished manner; as appears in his two pictures in the church of San Venanzio at Fabriano , representing The Baptism of Christ and The Last Supper. He is seen to more advantage in his picture of St. Peter and St. John curing the Lame Man, in the same church, a grand composition, in which he seems to have imitated
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