The Palazzo Albergati is a

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

style palace located on via Saragozza 26-28 in central

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, Italy. Construction of the palace was initially begun in 1519 to house the Albergati family. The palace was expanded to via Malpertuso in 1540. By the 19th century, the palace had past on from the family, and is now separate apartments.

Villa Albergati in Zola Predosa

A villa, built in the 17th century in the commune of Zola Predosa, was owned by the same family is also sometimes referred to as ''Palazzo Albergati''. The architect was

Giovanni Giacomo Monti Giovanni Giacomo Monti (born 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Monti became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi, Mitelli's son-in-law. This part ...

. The villa is remarkable for containing a large three story ballroom and a complex fresco decorations, including mythologic scenes,

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

, and ''boschereccia'' decoration that depicts surrounding forests and vineyards. The interiors were frescoed by

Giacomo Alboresi Giacomo Alboresi (1632–1677) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Bologna, he was a pupil of Domenico Santi, under whom he worked seventeen years, devoting himself above all to the painting of birds and small figures i ...

, Angelo Michele Colonna,

Giovanni Antonio Burrini Giovanni Antonio Burrini (25 April 1656 – 5 January 1727) was a Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style. After an apprenticeship with Domenico Maria Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Giovanni ...

, Prosper and Gaetano Pesci, Giuseppe Valliani, Vittorio Bigari, and Orlandi.Comune of Zola Predosa
.

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