Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi. The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi is a palace in Rome, Italy.
It was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the main building, the Casino dell'Aurora. Its first inhabitant was the famed art collector Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V, who wanted to be housed near the large papal Palazzo Quirinale.
The palace and garden of the Pallavicini-Rospigliosi were the product of the accumulated sites and were designed by Giovanni Vasanzio and Carlo Maderno in 1611-16. Scipione owned this site for less than a decade, 1610-16, and commissioned the construction and decoration of the casino and pergolata, facing the garden of Montecavallo.
The Roman palace of this name should not be mistaken for the panoramic Villa Pallavicino on the shores of Lake Como in Lombardy. The palace's main attraction, beside the art gallery, is the Casino dell'Aurora.
The casino was designed by Vasanzio is located overlooking the Piazza del Quirinale. On the walls are four frescoes of the Seasons by Paul Bril, and two Triumphs by Antonio Tempesta. Its ceiling displays what is considered the Bolognese painter Guido Reni's fresco masterpiece, commonly called L'Aurora. It is surrounded by a painted frame or quadro riportato and depicts Apollo in his Chari
It was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the main building, the Casino dell'Aurora. Its first inhabitant was the famed art collector Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V, who wanted to be housed near the large papal Palazzo Quirinale.
The palace and garden of the Pallavicini-Rospigliosi were the product of the accumulated sites and were designed by Giovanni Vasanzio and Carlo Maderno in 1611-16. Scipione owned this site for less than a decade, 1610-16, and commissioned the construction and decoration of the casino and pergolata, facing the garden of Montecavallo.
The Roman palace of this name should not be mistaken for the panoramic Villa Pallavicino on the shores of Lake Como in Lombardy. The palace's main attraction, beside the art gallery, is the Casino dell'Aurora.
The casino was designed by Vasanzio is located overlooking the Piazza del Quirinale. On the walls are four frescoes of the Seasons by Paul Bril, and two Triumphs by Antonio Tempesta. Its ceiling displays what is considered the Bolognese painter Guido Reni's fresco masterpiece, commonly called L'Aurora. It is surrounded by a painted frame or quadro riportato and depicts Apollo in his Chari
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