Palazzi in the Via degli Staderari [now part of Palazzo Madama Senate complex]
unknown (Italian)
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2014-12-22Description
Detail, very heavy Mannerist rustication, with banded columns; In 1935, the Corso del Rinascimento was widened and the area around the Palazzo Madama reconstructed. Some smaller private palazzi were demolished then reconstructed (in historic styles) as part of the Palazzo Madama complex; they house Senate offices today. These two buildings stand at the point the narrow Via degli Staderari opens to a tiny square, the Piazza di Sant'Eustachio. In front of them stands an ancient Roman basin, made of Egyptian granite which was probably part of the Baths of Nero; this was rediscovered and restored during construction work in the 1980s; placed in this piazza next to the Senate complex in 1987 to commemorate the anniversary of the Italian Constitution.
Type of Work
palazzoSubject
architecture, cityscape, Restoration and conservation, government, Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style), Sixteenth century
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