Palaces & Monuments
Palazzo Petrucci, detto del Magnifico
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The Palace of the Magnificent residence of Pandolfo Petrucci, is located between Piazza San Giovanni and Via dei Pellegrini, about halfway between Piazza del starda Duomio and Piazza del Campo.
This building was erected in 1508 by Domenico di Bartolomeo designed by Giacomo Cozzarelli and was one of the most magnificent mansions of the time. The most extraordinary was represented by the main hall that the rich client he had decorated by the best artists then active in Siena, including Pinturicchio, Signorelli Luca and Girolamo Genga. The occasion of the decoration, which ended in 1509, was probably lil marriage of the eldest son Borghese Vittoria Piccolomini, celebrated on September 22 of that year.
How the Medici family, also Petrucci had changing fortunes with his son Borghese Petrucci was chased out of town a few months after the death of his father in 1512. From that date the valuable interior decorations were plundered and dispersed, including the tearing of the frescoes and the dismantling of the ceiling of the hall and are now scattered in museums around the world.
The facade of the building was originally decorated with numerous bells and refined bronze bracelets, now preserved in the Public Palace.
The Exhibition was a large room on the first floor with a ceiling painted by Pinturicchio with mythological scenes and created the schema of the Volta Golden Domus Aurea. Included eight scenes frescoed walls, now divided between the National Gallery of Siena and some foreign museums.
Some of the works that made up the artistic construction:
Pinturicchio, Return of Ulysses
Ceiling of the Salone of the Palazzo del Magnifico, Metropolitan Museum
Luca Signorelli, Love defeated and triumph of Chastity
Luca Signorelli and Pinturicchio, Reconciliation of Coriolanus
Girolamo Genga, Escape from Troy
Girolamo Genga, Redemption of PrisonersThe Palace of the Magnificent residence of Pandolfo Petrucci, is located between Piazza San Giovanni and Via dei Pellegrini, about halfway between Piazza del starda Duomio and Piazza del Campo.
This building was erected in 1508 by Domenico di Bartolomeo designed by Giacomo Cozzarelli and was one of the most magnificent mansions of the time. The most extraordinary was represented by the main hall that the rich client he had decorated by the best artists then active in Siena, including Pinturicchio, Signorelli Luca and Girolamo Genga. The occasion of the decoration, which ended in 1509, was probably lil marriage of the eldest son Borghese Vittoria Piccolomini, celebrated on September 22 of that year.
How the Medici family, also Petrucci had changing fortunes with his son Borghese Petrucci was chased out of town a few months after the death of his father in 1512. From that date the valuable interior decorations were plundered and dispersed, including the tearing of the frescoes and the dismantling of the ceiling of the hall and are now scattered in museums around the world.
The facade of the building was originally decorated with numerous bells and refined bronze bracelets, now preserved in the Public Palace.
The Exhibition was a large room on the first floor with a ceiling painted by Pinturicchio with mythological scenes and created the schema of the Volta Golden Domus Aurea. Included eight scenes frescoed walls, now divided between the National Gallery of Siena and some foreign museums.
Some of the works that made up the artistic construction:
Pinturicchio, Return of Ulysses
Ceiling of the Salone of the Palazzo del Magnifico, Metropolitan Museum
Luca Signorelli, Love defeated and triumph of Chastity
Luca Signorelli and Pinturicchio, Reconciliation of Coriolanus
Girolamo Genga, Escape from Troy
Girolamo Genga, Redemption of Prisoners