Walking through the streets of Rome, something that I will be doing from next Wednesday (good!), I can come across a great variety of buildings. After all, Rome is a thousand-year-old city, an open-air museum. Among those buildings can be found one of a somewhat gloomy facahada: the Zuccari Palace.
El Zuccari Palace It was built in 1590 by a Baroque artist named Federico Zuccari. He was inspired by the Bomarzo Gardens which are in the Lazio region, in the north of the country, and although the architectural style and decorations of the palace have been criticized quite a bit for me, it has a lot of charm. Windows and doors crowned with grotesque faces are not something you see every day.
At the death of Zucari this palace in rome it was inherited by his children and later changed hands several times. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century it became the home of the Queen of Poland so it was one of the centers of Roman high society.
Centuries later it was in the hands of Henrietta Hertz and at his death the Italian State inherited his extensive collection of paintings, today present in the palace that also functions for these days as the Hertzian Library.