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Palazzo Venezia today National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy Royalty Free Stock Photo

Palazzo Venezia today National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy

The children of Virginio Orsini by Tiberio Titi 1597 in the hall of the paintings of the Palazzo Venezia today National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy.The hall houses paintings of the Italian School dating from the 17rh to the 18th century and mostly originated from the Ruffo collection. Palazzo Venezia is located just north of the Capitoline Hill. In 1469 owned by Cardinal Pietro Barbo, nephew of Pope Eugenius IV and the future Pope Paul II it became a residential papal palace, having undergone a massive extension. The pope commissioned perhaps Alberti or Giuliano da Maiano to enlarge his palace in 1455, by incorporating into it the adjacent 9th-century basilica of San Marco. The building manifests some of the first Renaissance architectural features in Rome.