Palazzo Corrodi, Palace in Campo Marzio district, Rome, Italy
Palazzo Corrodi is an early-20th-century building in the Campo Marzio district, occupying a full block between Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia and the streets Via Luisa di Savoia, Via Maria Adelaide and Via Maria Cristina, all laid out in 1904. It was built between 1903 and 1906 to a design by engineer Gualtiero Aureli, on the idea of the painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, and was intended to house artists' studios.
Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, a Swiss-born painter with Italian citizenship and a member of the Accademia di San Luca, conceived the building as studios for artists; it was built between 1903 and 1906 to a design by engineer Gualtiero Aureli. In the early 1930s Andrea Busiri Vici jr renovated it for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which made it its Rome headquarters. Paolo Portoghesi directed a further renovation in 1988-92, when the Cassa di previdenza geometri bought the palace as its seat.
The building's name honours the painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, who conceived it as studios for artists. In 1924 one of those studios hosted the first broadcasts of the Unione Radiofonica Italiana, forerunner of RAI; a plaque added in 2014 marks this. The poet Trilussa, who claimed never to have lived outside Campo Marzio, rented a studio here from 1915 until his death in 1950.
The building is centrally located with good access from surrounding streets and the Lungotevere embankment. Its large footprint makes it easy to locate and approach from multiple directions.
Trilussa obtained his studio in 1915 by presenting himself as a painter, and used the high ceilings to build a mezzanine apartment. After his death in 1950 the studio was briefly bound as a house-museum by the Ministry of Public Education; the Fono Roma company, which had bought it in 1940, handled the first museum installation before the materials passed to the City of Rome.
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