Palazzo Inghirami, Volterra
The Palazzo Inghirami is an aristocratic palace with a main façade on Via Marchesi, on the corner with Piazza Martire della Liberta,[a] in Volterra, in the province of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. The main façade of the palace was commissioned in the early 17th-century by Jacopo Inghirami, Admiral of the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany.
History
[edit]The design of the mannerist façade on Via Marchesi has been attributed to Gherardo Silvani,[1][2] but other sources suggest that it was constructed by Giovanni Battista Caccini in 1613–1618.[3] The palace extends into a stone gothic palace to the south. This wing was erected in the 19th century in a gothic revival style by the architect Giuseppe Partini, commissioned by Michelangelo Inghirami.
The palace is accessible mainly by appointment. The entrance portal is surmounted by a bust of Cosimo II de' Medici, the patron of admiral Jacopo Inghirami. In the inner courtyard are displayed a number of Etruscan funerary urns excavated from lands owned by the Inghirami family. The interior rooms of the palace contain a bust of the admiral by Felice Palma, and an archive of the family containing maps and drawings by the admiral. A replica of the Raphael Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami is on display.
Notes
[edit]- ^ In the 19th-century, this was called the Piazza dei Ponti
References
[edit]- ^ Torrini, Pietro (1832). Guida per la citta di Volterra (in Italian). Volterra: Tipografia de Pietro Torrini. p. 130.
Il Palazzo Inghirami [..] fù fabbricato sul disegno dell'Ar-ehitetto Gherardo Silvani
- ^ "Volterra: The house-towers and the renaissance palaces". comune.volterra.pi.it. Comune of Volterra. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "Palazzo Inghirami - Volterra". visitvaldicecina.com (in Italian). Visit Valdecina. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
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