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Palazzo dell'Accademia di Francia (Book 9) (Map B3) (Day1) (View C7) (Rione Pigna) and (Rione Trevi)

In this page:
The plate by Giuseppe Vasi
Today's view
Palazzo dell'Accademia di Francia
Palazzo d'Aste

The Plate (No. 170)

Accademia di Francia

The view is taken in Piazza Venezia at the beginning of Via del Corso. Vasi wants to show the palaces on the right side and to do so he forces perspective laws. The view is taken from the green dot in the 1748 map below. In the description below the plate Vasi made reference to: 1) Palazzo d'Aste; 2) S. Maria in via Lata; 3) Palazzo De Carolis; 4) Monastery of S. Marcello; 5) Palazzo Mellini; 6) Strada del Corso. 2), 3), 4) and 5) are shown in other pages. The map shows also 7) Palazzo del'Accademia di Francia. The dotted line in the small map delineates the borders between Rione Pigna (left) and Rione Trevi (right).

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Today

The view today

The Palace of the Academy of France (today a bank) can be seen from Piazza Venezia, but the view is necessarily oblique. In the front Palazzo d'Aste retains the covered balcony from which the ladies could watch the passers-by.

Palazzo dell'Accademia di Francia (or Palazzo Aldobrandini, Nevers, Salviati)

The Palace

The façade by Carlo Rainaldi is embellished by an elaborated cornice. The Palace was bought by the King of France in 1725 from the Duke of Nevers to host French Art students (today the Academy of France is in Villa Medici). Louis, King of Holland, the brother of Napoleon spent his last years in this Palace.

Cornice


Palazzo d' Aste

Loggia Bonaparte


Palazzo d'Aste is a work by Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi and it was built in 1658-55. A recent restoration brought back the palace to its original colours (you may wish to see it before the restoration). Here lived from 1815 to 1836 Madame Letizia, the mother of Napoleon (his eagle is on the façade). The loggia of Palazzo d'Aste still bears the name of the Bonaparte.

Excerpts from Giuseppe Vasi 1761 Itinerary related to this page:


Accademia di Francia
Sulla strada del Corso ed incontro al divisato palazzo Panfili si vede il magnifico edifizio eretto da' Duchi di Nivers col disegno del Cav. Rainaldi, in cui il magnanimo Luigi il Grande Re di Francia istituì uno studio, o per dir meglio Accademia, affinchè i suoi sudditi apprendessero bene la pittura, la scultura, e l'architettura; e perchè vi fossero tutti i comodi per disegnare, fece formare in gesso tutte le statue migliori di Roma, e di tutta l'Italia ancora, colle quali furono ornate le stanze del piano nobile. Il primo Direttore di quell'Accademia fu il Cav. Bernini pittore, scultore, ed architetto celebratissimo, colla provvisione di due mila scudi annui; ora però è sempre Francese. Poco più oltre e quasi incontro evvi il
Palazzo d'Asti
Nel fine della strada del Corso, e sulla piazza di Venezia forma il suo nobile prospetto questo palazzo edificato col disegno di Gio. Antonio de' Rossi fuorchè il portone, che fu fatto anni sono senza alcun ornamento.

Next plate in Book 9: Chiesa di S. Spirito in Sassia
Next step in Day 1 itinerary: Palazzo di Venezia
Next step in tour of Rione Pigna: Palazzo di Venezia
Next step in tour of Rione Trevi: Palazzo Bolognetti