Palazzo Mattei

The Palazzo Mattei di Giove is one of several buildings, erected by the Mattei family in the insula Mattei in Rome. Among the other buildings include the Palazzo Mattei di Trastevere in the Trastevere district of Rome, the Villa Celimontana Roman Celio, and for example in Umbria, Palazzo Mattei Paganica or the Palazzo Ducale in Giove. The Palace is located between Via Michelangelo Caetani, Via dei Funari in the Roman district of Sant'Angelo.

Planning and construction

The acting in Rome architect Carlo Maderno was involved in the time from 1598 to 1611 with the construction of the palace. The client was Asdrubale Mattei, Duke of Giove, a representative of the then powerful Mattei family to which his brothers Ciriaco Mattei and Cardinal Girolamo Mattei and his sons, Girolamo Mattei and Luigi Mattei belong. Maderno was responsible for the design of roadside facade of the palace, the courtyard with its loggias and the altana, the roof loggia of the Palazzo.

For the other facilities of the Palace Cortona was commissioned to decorate some parts of the ceiling of the semicircular canals of the inner courtyard before 1626 Pietro da.

History

Asdrubale Mattei is known as a great art lover. He is said to have the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ( Caravaggio ) in the Palazzo granted accommodation, among others in 1601. In the 19th century a part of the painting of the Palazzo to the British collector William Hamilton Nisbet was sold, she spent to Scotland. The building itself was acquired by the Italian State after the extinction of the Mattei family in 1938.

Use in 2013

The building now houses various departments of the Italian Culture Ministry ( Ministerio per i Beni Culturali ), such as the Institute for the modern and contemporary history, as well as the library for the modern and contemporary history.