Palazzo Mancini. The Palazzo Mancini is a palazzo in Rome, Italy.
From 1737 to 1793 it was the second home of the French Academy in Rome. It is located on Via del Corso, about a block north of Piazza Venezia.
In 1634 Lorenzo Mancini, brother of cardinal Francesco Maria Mancini, married Geronima Mazzarino, sister of cardinal Mazarin. For their wedding celebrations, the old residence of the Mancini family was enlarged by the acquisition of four adjoining houses and a new building designed by the architect Carlo Rainaldi.
The work was begun by Lorenzo and completed by Filippo Mancini, duke of Nevers, between 1687 and 1689. The building features a facade with bugne lisce, or 'fishbone'-style ashlar, with the central door surmounted by a rich balcony supported by brackets decorated from Cupids.
Inside are preserved a painted frieze in the salone di rappresentanza or state room and fragments of seventeenth-century friezes in other rooms with Stories of David and Jacob. Another room houses a fresco collection of vedute of Rome by Bartolomeo Pinelli. By order of Louis XV, the Palazzo was acquired for France in 1725 and 22 years later it became the new residence of the French Academy in Rome, previously housed at the Palazzo Capranica. One second floor room is still frescoed with scenes copied from the Raphael Rooms at the Vatican Palace, produced by the artists accommodated by the Palazzo during its ti
From 1737 to 1793 it was the second home of the French Academy in Rome. It is located on Via del Corso, about a block north of Piazza Venezia.
In 1634 Lorenzo Mancini, brother of cardinal Francesco Maria Mancini, married Geronima Mazzarino, sister of cardinal Mazarin. For their wedding celebrations, the old residence of the Mancini family was enlarged by the acquisition of four adjoining houses and a new building designed by the architect Carlo Rainaldi.
The work was begun by Lorenzo and completed by Filippo Mancini, duke of Nevers, between 1687 and 1689. The building features a facade with bugne lisce, or 'fishbone'-style ashlar, with the central door surmounted by a rich balcony supported by brackets decorated from Cupids.
Inside are preserved a painted frieze in the salone di rappresentanza or state room and fragments of seventeenth-century friezes in other rooms with Stories of David and Jacob. Another room houses a fresco collection of vedute of Rome by Bartolomeo Pinelli. By order of Louis XV, the Palazzo was acquired for France in 1725 and 22 years later it became the new residence of the French Academy in Rome, previously housed at the Palazzo Capranica. One second floor room is still frescoed with scenes copied from the Raphael Rooms at the Vatican Palace, produced by the artists accommodated by the Palazzo during its ti
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