Palazzo Spada
The Palazzo Spada is one of the great palaces in Rome, it is located at Piazza Capo di Ferro.
Was built the palace from 1548 on behalf of the Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro by the architect Bartolomeo Baronino. 1623 was a Renaissance building in the possession Bernardino Spada, whose name it bears to this day and Francesco Borromini had to make from 1635 restoration of the facades. By Borromini also the famous passage perspective was created, one of the most famous Mannerist optical illusions. This colonnaded gallery from the courtyard is always narrower to its output and the spacing of the columns decreases in the distance, so that despite its length mediated by just nine meters, the impression of a long and wide space.
Since 1927, the Palazzo Spada is the seat of the Italian Council of State, also here a large collection of art of the 17th century issued.
The art collection at the Palazzo, which contains, among other works of Andrea del Sarto, Guido Reni, Titian, Brueghel, Guercino, Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, Caravaggio, Domenichino, Annibale Carracci, Salvator Rosa, Parmigianino, Francesco Solimena and Artemisia Gentileschi, is for visitors opened.