Palazzo Buonaccorsi

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The Palazzo Buonaccorsi is an 18th-century aristocratic palace, now the civic museum of the town, located on Via Don Minzoni 24 in the historic center of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.

Description[]

The palace was erected on a site with some houses just inside the former medieval city walls. The Buonaccorsi family, led by Simone the Elder had risen to prominence by the mid-17th century; Simone's brother (1620-1678) had become a cardinal. Simone endeavored to build a palace here, commensurate with the family's rising status. After the Simone's death in 1708, his son Raimondo continued the project, aided by his brother Filippo, Abbott of San Quirico, and employing the designs of the architects Giovanni Battista Contini and Ludovico Gregorini. The palace encompassed the former Palazzo Centini and other houses at the site. Raimondo's son, also called (1708-1776) would also become a cardinal. After the death of Raimondi in 1746, the family was elevated in to the Roman Patriciate by Pope Benedict XIV, leading the family to abandon Macerata for Rome. The Buonaccorsi family returned in 1853 under Conte Flavio, and began needed refurbishments.

Raimondo and Simone were mainly responsible for patronizing the construction of the palace, and the decoration of the piano nobile. Such decoration began in 1707 with paintings by Carlo Antonio Rambaldi, and quadratura by Antonio Dardani. Abbott Filippo is said to have been instrumental in deciding on the choice of the subjects and iconography for painting, including the ceiling depicting the Marriage of Ariadne and Bacchus (by Michelangelo Ricciolini and his son Niccolo) with vaults the hall decorated with a dozen rococo canvas paintings (1710-1715) on episodes from the Aeneid, painted by among the most prominent Italian artists of the time.

Today the palace accommodates the "Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi" including a pinacoteca (painting gallery spanning works from the medieval period to modern times, and houses a carriage museum (Museo della Carrozza), as well as a library (biblioteca "Amedeo Ricci").

Overview of art collections[]

The palace's main floor is known for the Sala dell'Eneide (Hall of the Aeneid); the panels display events from Virgil's epic, although one canvas above the door elaborates on the supremacy of Christian to Pagan religion. The canvases depict:

Image	Name	Painter
	Venus appears to Aeneas and Anchises	Antonio Balestra
	Aeneas, Ascanius, Anchises, and Creusa flee from Troy	Giovanni Giorgi
	Aeneas and Ascanius first encounter Dido	Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
	Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy	Nicolò Bambini
	Aeneas and Dido in the cave	Francesco Solimena
	Mercury reminds Aeneas of his destiny	Marcantonio Franceschini
	Death of Dido	Gregorio Lazzarini
	Aeneas snaps the golden bough	Giuseppe Gambarini
	The God Tiber	Giacomo del Po
	Venus at the furnace of Vulcan	Luigi Garzi
	Venus giving arms to Aeneas	Paolo de Matteis
	Duel between Aeneas and Mezentius	Gregorio Lazzarini

The museum galleries have a broad representation of art from the past centuries, including the following painters: Nicolò Bambini, Luigi Bartolini, Marco Benefial, Christian Berentz, , Andrea Boscoli, (Copy of a work by Zuccari), , Antonio Bonfigli, Domenico Bruschi, Corrado Cagli, , Domenico Cantatore, Ugo Capocchini, , , Domenico Corvi, , , Marco Davanzo, Giacomo Del Po, , Carlo Dolci, , , Pier Simone Fanelli, , , , , Gaspare Gasparrini, Pier Leone Ghezzi, , Giovanni Giorgi, Corrado Giaquinto, Giovanni di Corraduccio, , , Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Johannes Lingelbach, Carlo Magini, , Francesco Mancini, , Maratta, , , Vincenzo Monti, Anthonis Mor, Morelli, , Elena Nobili, Orazio Orazi, , , , , , , , Francesco Podesti, Scipione Pulzone, , , , Michele Rocca, Philipp Peter Roos, , , Joachim von Sandrart, Santi di Tito, Sassoferrato, , Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, , , Ilario Spolverini, , Tamburini, , , , Giulio Turcato, Emilio Vedova, Claude Joseph Vernet, and Giuseppe Zigaina.

Displayed in its 19th century galleries, the museum acquired directly from the artists, (Macerata 1856 - Florence 1938) and Giuseppe Bonolis, a collection of works.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Exhibition at Urbino of canvases from Hall of Aenid

Coordinates: 43°18′02.66″N 13°27′19.26″E / 43.3007389°N 13.4553500°E / 43.3007389; 13.4553500