The presence of f amiglia Peretti in Civita Castellana is amply documented by large building being erected Montalto Court, that Pope Sixtus V the century Felice Peretti you presumably built in 1589 years Construction of the Ponte Felice Borghetto, an important commercial hub and road joining the papal state with the Adriatic sea and the way to the Shrine of Loreto. The building was donated by the pontiff to his nephew the Damasceni Cardinal Alessandro Peretti, son of the daughter of his sister, Camilla Peretti, an important Roman lady who bought her prestige thanks to the election of his brother, and indeed the whole family, soon becoming one of the pe rsonalità most influential Roman salons.
Just as the great palaces built by the Roman Pontiff and his family, including the building of Civita Castellana Montalto recalled the slender type and decoration characterized by the use of styles typical of the early sixteenth the architect Domenico Fontana , remembered for having raised the obelisks in Rome. The floor of the building located on the first floor consists of a large hall representation with a frescoed frieze that along the entire wall.
There being no documents that confirm when the period of implementation of this decoration, we must rely on his kind of style and the subjects represented in dating.
The frieze is the succession of landscapes, and candelabra with putti and grotesque allegories of virtue . The most important characteristics is given by ia s coats of cardinal Alessandro Peretti, paintings on the short sides of the room is double coats of of his brother Michael and his two sisters, Flavia and Orsini. The presence of coats of arms gives us a double term post quem for the dating of the frieze that certainly was done no earlier than March 20, 1589 Flavia Peretti day of the wedding of the Duke of Bracciano Virginio Orsini, identified by the emblem on the far left looking from the front door, and Felice Orsini Marcantonio Colonna, Grand Constable of the kingdom of Naples, located on the bottom right .
Two more coats of arms appear in the decoration of the marriage with Margaret of Michael Peretti Somaglia, Milanese nobleman happened in 1585 years of election to the papacy of Felice Peretti, placed immediately above the front door and coat of arms of the second wedding of Felice Orsini Muzio Sforza in 1595.
Other useful for dating are identified by the presence of feuds recognizable as a representation of Villa Grazioli in Grottaferrata, near Frascati which was acquired by Cardinal in 1614 and then later given to his brother Michael.
The case for a period of time so great, can be explained by the precarious economic conditions that the family was faced immediately after the death of the pope, which in turn has extended the deadline for completing explaining also the obvious stylistic differences inside the frieze . Opera style location for the last dawn of the Mannerist style Sistine typical production, but also very close to civil decorative culture developed in Rome lasted the pontificates of Clement VIII and PaoloV. landscapes and views of great quality are the estates belonging to the family placed next to the coats of arms that represent them: there are the castle of Bracciano and their hunting grounds, the View of Civita Castellana the door downstairs, and in the distance to the bridge and the Castle Borghetto, river views, hunting scenes, castles and villas in the plant and in subjects who remember the type of executive Paul Brill and Antonio Tempesta , two landscape architects, in which the pope often entrusted the direction of Decorative his yards, but different in execution and style to some falls.
Regarding the performance of boys, even in this case the hands that carried out many different shapes are also chronologically.
The report of the Cardinal with Civita Castellana is documented until 1619, died in 1623. Failure to complete Express architecture allows us to suppose that other and paintings were to characterize the rooms of the palace, and certainly a larger number of paintings would be very useful for them to bring back names of certain documents which, unfortunately, still there report. Dr. Carlotta Nelli
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