Palazzo Lancelotti, Rome, Renaissance palace in central Rome, Italy.
Palazzo Lancelotti is a Renaissance palace on Via dei Coronari, near the Tiber in Rome's historic center. It occupies an entire city block and is recognizable by its symmetrical stone facade with classical details and ground-level arcades facing the street.
Construction started in 1591 under architect Francesco Capriani and was completed around 1594 following designs by Carlo Maderno. The palace was part of a wider wave of building that reshaped Rome's city center during that period.
The main hall ceilings are covered with early 1600s frescoes showing religious and allegorical scenes painted by artists of that period. Walking through these rooms gives a direct sense of the taste of the families who lived here.
The building sits in Rome's historic center and is easy to reach on foot since many other sites are nearby. As it is a private residence, the exterior can be seen freely from the street but access to the interior is not generally available.
Carlo Maderno, who later designed the nave of Saint Peter's Basilica, took on this palace as one of his earliest works in Rome. The building is therefore an early example of a career that would go on to shape some of the city's most known spaces.
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