| ORDER EQUESTRE OF GERUSALEMME THE SEPOLCRO SAINT THE PALACE OF DOMENICO OF THE ROVERE The palace that today comes called improperly of the Penitenzieri from the name of the last owners, the Fathers Penitenzieri di S. Peter, was in the 1400's the palace of Domenico of the Rovere: Piemontese Cardinal of the cerchia of Pope Sisto IV of the Rovere than to Rome will make one shining career distinguishing itself for ecclesiastical loaded important and high economic unearned incomes. Its construction laughed them to the second half of the 1400's, between the 1480 and 1490 - the architect is the Fiorentino Baccio Pontelli - and model to which directly rif� in the tipologia building it is Venice Palace, the more important of the 1400's Roman. The Palace of the Rovere was in the 1400's a lot praised and admired from the contemporaries who were prechosen in order to accommodate the emperor Carl VIII during its visit to Rome in 1495. The complex accommodates in the five halls of the noble plan, center of the offices of representation of the Equestre Order of the Saint Sepolcro, a most important pittorico sky of the Pinturicchio and its school: it knows it of the Great Master decorated with one sontuosa painted architecture this simulates a loggia opened, knows it it of the Months that conserve fragments of a rarest rappresentazione of the months connects to you with myths from which has had origin the zodiacali signs - the remained scenes regard the month of june with the peasant that cuts with a scythe the grass and the myth of Ercole and idra from which the zodiacale sign of the Cancer has had origin, the month of October with the figure of the uccellatore of the tradition bizantina and the myth of Orione from which the zodiacale sign of the scorpion has had origin, and the month of March with the ready soldiers in order to leave for the war. |
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| The successive one knows it conserve beautifulst lunette with figures of prophets who recite their profezie and of apostles with the verses of Credo, while the dazzling ceiling of gold and blue extension ritrattie Conserved the beautiful and better atmosphere is knows it of the Semidei with an extraordinary ceiling composed of sessantatre formelle painted on paper and glue in the cassettoni lignei, where to medieval bestiari to allegorie and symbols and images resumed from sarcofagi the classics, testimony most important of one culture to the crossroad between Medioevo and Rinascimento are placed side by side. Mitologiche fantastic and monstrous animals, hybrid divinity and beings, human halves and halves animals like sirene, tritoni, centauri, satiri and sfingi, camp isolate to you on the deep gold of the formelle, or play musical instruments, or great variety of attitudes comes to blows with rudimentali crews in one. The ancient refectory that shows oneself on the hanging garden, in the left wing of the palace occupied from the Hotel Columbus, conserve one cinquecentesca decoration to naturalistic reasons and allegorical figures of michelangiolesca infuence. In the same wing of the building, to according to plan, Fiorentino painter Francisco Salviati frescoed in 1552 other atmospheres for assignment of the Cardinal Giovanni Salviati who was for along time between the owners of the palace, where had stable dwelling. Between these he is knows it of Apollo with one extraordinary rappresentazione to it of Apollo that guides the horses of the sun painted with effect of trompe-l' oeil to the center of the ceiling between the emblemi of the family Medical |