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High Renaissance and Proto Baroque

Palazzo Doria Tursi

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The Palazzo Doria Tursi-or Nicholas Grimaldi Palace is a building in Via Garibaldi at number 9 in the
historic center of Genoa, added on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 enrolled in Rolli palaces of Genoa
which became a Heritage of UNESCO. The building is now the seat of the municipality of Genoa.

The palace was built from 1565 by Giovanni Domenico and Ponzello to Nicholas Grimaldi, appealed to
the "Monarch" for the number of possible titles that could boast, and which are compounded by the
numerous claims that he had against Philip II, of which was the principal banker.

It is the most imposing building of the street, one built on three parcels of land, with two large gardens
framing the central body. The spacious balconies overlooking the street were added in 1597, when the
palace became the property of Giovanni Andrea Doria who acquired it for the younger son Charles, Duke
of Tursi, to whom we owe its present name. Since 1848 is the town hall of Genoa.

The facade is characterized by the alternation of materials of different colors: pink stone of Finale, the
gray-black slate, the white of the precious marble from Carrara. The main facade consists of two
superimposed orders.

The floor above the large windows skirting alternates from the original design with rustic pilasters
projecting replaced, upstairs, by Doric pilasters. Mascheroni by grimaces animalistic surmount the
windows on both levels, contributing to the plastic rendering of the facade.

The majestic marble portal is crowned with the coat of arms of the city of Genoa. Particularly innovative
is the new and ingenious architectural solution that with the sequence of interior spaces - foyer,
staircase, rectangular courtyard elevated above the porch and staircase with two flights - creates a
wonderful play of light and perspective. The building is the culmination of residential splendor of the
Genoese aristocracy.

The building is connected to the adjacent Palazzo Bianco and houses the last room of the museum
gallery, or the Genoese painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Penitent Magdalene
by Canova, violins Niccolò Paganini and Camillo Sivori and numismatic collections and that of ceramics
from the city of Genoa.

C.Baroque
I.Porta Pila 

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Porta Pila was erected in 1648. 

In 1898 due to the opening of the new Via XX Settembre in danger of being demolished, 
but a clergy uncompromising claims that ancient port, 
with the statue of Our Lady, remained where it had been erected by the avi, guardian of the city. 
Following lengthy discussions and tumultuous demonstrations, common sense prevailed: 
it was decided that the transfer and buttressing the door to the ramparts of Monte Sano.The Porta Pila
was originally designed to be part of the fortification of Porta Maurizio, but instead was transported by
the order of Padri del Comune sometime between 1647 and 1649. During demolition of the Fronti Bassi
the door was demolished as well, but it was saved and moved in 1899 to the Montesano Bastion,
although this site no longer exists due to the expansion of the Brignole train station. It was moved to its
current place in 1940. 
II. Palazzo Carignano

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Palazzo Carignano (Carignan Palas in Piedmontese) is a historic building which is one of the finest
examples of Baroque architecture. It consists of two different buildings and is located in the center of
Turin. Together with the Royal Palace and the Senate is one of the most important buildings of the city.

Now houses the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento. Nearby are the National University
Library and the Teatro Carignano.

From April 2006, the Museum of the Risorgimento has been closed for a period of about three years for
a challenging restoration and redevelopment and reopened March 18, 2011, on the occasion of the
celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy .

This Palace is mainly related to the history of Italian Risorgimento.

The building overlooks the square and the side facade of the Palace of the Academy of Sciences and the
imposing rear of the church of San Filippo Blacks creates a unique architectural extraordinary value.

In the second half of the seventeenth century (1679-1684) Emanuele Filiberto (known as the Mute) of
the cadet branch of Savoy-Carignano commissioned the famous Theatine father, architect and
mathematician Guarino Guarini (builder of the famous Chapel of the Holy Shroud) a palace for his family
. Guarini designed a beautiful building that is one of the most important works of the Piedmontese
Baroque, with a U-shaped plan and a unique architectural structure: an elliptical tower is slightly behind
the facade and two wings unfold to form a square courtyard surrounded completely by body of the
building.

In the monumental façade the ellipse is distinguishable because it makes room sinuously, making a
magnificent effect, since the facade alternates concave with convex parts, in a configuration perhaps
due to projects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Louvre palace and the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte. [1]
From the courtyard instead of the elliptical body stands out from the wings, surpassing them in height.

The building model is also sought at the Oratorio dei Filippini Borromini, also recalled the use of exposed
brick. The bricks perfectly sharpened and grouted with mortar powder cooked [2], become as plastic
and moldable The decorations on the facade of the main floor, also in brick, are references to
adventures and enterprises of Carignano, including victory in Canada performed alongside the French in
1667 against the native Iroquois, with the regiment Carignan-Salières. The large decorative frieze on the
façade main bearing the inscription QVI NACQVE VITTORIO EMANVELE II was added in 1884 by Carlo
Ceppi, respecting the Baroque style in brick.

The interiors are beautifully decorated with frescoes and stucco. Some frescoes are by Stefano Legnani
said Legnanino. Agostino Silva was the author of the stucco still visible in the room with an alcove on the
first floor of the south side of the courtyard. Since 1692 the hall, the staircase and the hall are decorated
with stucco and 29 busts of ancient sculptor Pietro Somazzi [3].

In the course of the extension work carried out at Giuseppe Bollati by Gaetano Ferri between 1864 and
1871 was built the back side, in an eclectic style, with white stone and pink stucco embellished with
magnificent columns and pilasters, porch on the ground floor and topped raised by a balustrade on the
top in the center. It was the interior facade of the building at the time when it was the residence of
Savoy. Overlooking the garden, which is now Piazza Carlo Alberto, the building was connected by walls
Directly opposite the stable structure, now home to the National Library.