- Palazzo Buonaccorsi
The "
Palazzo Buonaccorsi " is a palace inMacerata ,Marche , Italy. It was built in 1700-1720 for Count Raimondo Buonaccorsi and his son CardinalSimone Buonaccorsi , using designs byGiovanni Battista Contini . The palace is notable for its somewhat coherent series ofrococo paintings on themes from theAeneid , although painted by diverse prominent Italian artists,The "
piano nobile " is known for the "Sala dell'Eneide" (Hall of theAeneid ), decorated with frescoes by the BologneseCarlo Antonio Rambaldi ,Antonio Dardani ("Apotheosis of Aeneas" in vault), the NapoletanFrancesco Solimena ("Dido welcomes Aeneas") and canvases byLuigi Garzi ("Venus in the Forge of Vulcan"). The painterGiovanni Gioseffo dal Sole completed a canvas ("Andromache weeping before Aeneas"). Other submissions were fromGiuseppe Gambarini ,Antonio Balestra ,Gregorio Lazzarini ("Death of Queen Dido" and "Battle of Aeneas and Mezentius"), and lastlyMarcantonio Franceschini ("Mercury awakens Aeneas"). The team of artists represented some of the major Italian artists of their day.External links
* [http://www.europeanpaintings.com/exhibits/xviiicent/solidido.htm Review of collection]
* [http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1008866920 Exhibition at Urbino of canvases from Hall of Aenid]
* [http://www.ipalazzi.it/palazzo/p_1851.html opening schedule]
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