- Palazzo Pamphilj
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Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and Palazzo Doria Pamphilj of ValmontonePalazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facingPiazza Navona inRome . It was built between1644 and1650 .The original palace was built in
1630 over a series of houses already property of the powerfulPamphilj family, and had lateRenaissance forms. But when the commissioner, Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, became pope in1644 asInnocent X , the family decided the palace was not enough for their increased prestige and started a new and more magnificent building. The architect commissioned wasGirolamo Rainaldi . The new project inglobated some of the neighbouring buildings, including the former palace of the Pamphilj (whose decoration byAgostino Tassi was partially preserved) and the Palazzo Cybo.The interior has three courtyards. The halls are highly and splendidly decorated: the noble plan has 23 rooms frescoes by famous artists including
Giacinto Gimignani ,Gaspard Dughet ,Andrea Camassei ,Giacinto Brandi ,Francesco Allegrini ,Pier Francesco Mola .Pietro da Cortona in1651 -1654 painted the long gallery, designed byBorromini , with the "Enea's Histories".The new
palazzo was later the home of Innocent's widowed sister-in-lawOlimpia Maidalchini , who was his unpopular confidante and advisor, and speculated to have been his mistress. Olimpia Maidalchini was the mother ofCamillo Pamphilj , the one time cardinal, who through his marriage came into the possession of the Palazzo Aldobrandini, now known as thePalazzo Doria Pamphilj .When the
Pamphilj settled in their new palace, the building inPiazza Navona was let, housing, among the others, to the "Accademia Filarmonica Romana".Confusingly, until the unification of the
Doria and Pamphilj surnames both palazzi were known as Palazzo Pamphilj, or in the case of today's Doria Pamphilj sometimes "Palazzo Pamfilio". Both spellings Pamphilj and Pamphili are in common Italian usage, even though the family prefers Pamphilj.Since 1920 the palace has housed the Brazilian embassy in
Italy , and in 1964 it became the property of theFederative Republic of Brazil . [http://www.ambasciatadelbrasile.it/default.asp]
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