Palazzo Zuccari, Rome

The Palazzo Zuccari in Rome is a small residential building between the two acutely tapering to the Piazza della Trinita dei Monti, near the church of Santa Trinità dei Monti streets Via Gregoriana and Via Sistina. It was built from 1591 to the painter Federico Zuccari, who did not live to complete. The portal to the palace, a Mascherone has the shape of a face with a huge gaping mouth. The basement was painted by Zuccari frescoes. When he died in 1609, he left behind the construction of the artists he founded the Accademia di San Luca.

From 1702 the Queen of Poland, Marie Louise de la Grange d' Casimire Arquien lived for a time in the building and erected a wooden arch over the Via Sistina, and grow by Filippo Juvarra at the front side a portico.

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Later, the Palazzo Zuccari was divided into apartments and mostly rented to foreigners and artists; among other resided there on Joshua Reynolds, Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Jacques -Louis David. One of the later owners, the Prussian Consul-General Jakob Salomon Bartholdy Ludwig had, in 1815 a corner room with scenes of the Joseph story coloring. The frescoes by Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Wilhelm von Schadow and Philipp Veit, which were sold in 1867 by the Zuccari family at the Old National Gallery in Berlin, regarded as a major work of Nazarene art.

In 1904 bought the art collector and founder of today's Bibliotheca Hertziana, Henriette Hertz ( 1846-1913 ), the building and bequeathed in 1913 the Kaiser Wilhelm Society there. From 1943 Library and Institute were moved to Meran, Hallein and Saalfelden; 1944 Allied military confiscated the Palazzo. In 1953, the Institute of the Max Planck Society was passed and as " Bibliotheca Hertziana ( Max Planck Institute ) " continued. The Palazzo Zuccari heard today, along with the 1963 bought Palazzo Stroganoff and the Villino Stroganoff, one of the larger buildings of the institute.

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