Hôtel Scipion, Renaissance private mansion in 5th arrondissement, France.

The Hôtel Scipion is a private mansion in the 5th arrondissement featuring red brick walls accented with stone frames surrounding a large paved courtyard planted with spruce trees. The structure displays Renaissance design with decorative details visible on the facades, combining Italian architectural influences with French building traditions.

Scipion Sardini, banker to Catherine de' Medici, bought in 1565 the plot of Maurice Bullioud, dean of Saint-Marcel, and built the present Renaissance mansion, where he lived with Isabelle de Limeuil. After his death in 1609 it became a hospice in 1612, then part of the Hôpital Général in 1656 as the Sainte-Marthe maternity hospital. From the Revolution it housed the bakery of the Paris hospitals until 1974.

The gallery's name comes from Scipion Sardini, the Medici banker who built the mansion from 1565 and lived there with his wife Isabelle de Limeuil. The brick gallery on six stone arches originally carried six terracotta low-relief medallions; partly destroyed, four were restored in the 1970s. The gallery was classified as a monument historique on 4 November 1899.

The mansion stands at 13, rue Scipion in the 5th arrondissement, reachable by metro line 7 at Les Gobelins station. The building is not open to the public; the street facade, with its round-arched doorway and clock, can be seen from the pavement, partly behind a low blue-green fence.

The gallery's six stone arches once carried six terracotta medallions in low relief; four were restored in the 1970s, so the series is incomplete. The gallery was listed as a monument historique on 4 November 1899, while the street facade and roof were inscribed on 26 September 1969.