The Palazzo Felicini is a

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style palace in Via Riva di Reno 79 in central

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, Italy. left, Detail of a capital of the palace. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969. Like many of the palaces in the crowded center of Bologna, the piano nobile and facade extends up to the street over an arcaded front. It stands across from the Palazzo Bonasoni. While

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may have performed some work on the palace before departing in the 1470s, the palace, as we see it today, was built in 1497, for a Bartolomeo Felicini, senator, and member of a prominent banking family. With the defeat of the Giulio II Bentivoglio by the papal forces, a member of the Felicini family was present to the city senate till 1584. The exterior has

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decorations. The interiors are frescoed by

Angelo Michele Colonna Angelo Michele Colonna (21 September 1604 - 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna, northern and central Italy and Spain. He is sometimes referred to as Michelangelo Colonna. Biography He was born in Rovenna. As a ...

and Giacomo Alboresi (''Assumption of the Virgin'', Family Chapel);

Domenico Santi Domenico Santi, also known as il Mengazzino, (1621-1694) was an Italian painter, active in Modena, Mirandola, and Novellara, painting quadratura. Biography He was a pupil of Agostino Mitelli in Bologna. He moved to Mirandola Mirandola ( Mira ...

and

Domenico Maria Canuti Domenico Maria Canuti (5 April 1625– 6 April 1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome. He was a major painter of fresco decorations. His ceiling decorations showed a mix of Bolognese and Roman infl ...

(''Allegory of Aurora'', ''Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne'', and ''Dusk'' in the piano nobile, 1664); and ''Death of Phaeton'' also by Alboresi and Colonna. The palace was sold to the Cardinal Pucci and then the Fibbia family (now also called Palazzo Felicini Fibbia or Felicini poi Fibbia). The palace underwent extensive restorations in 1905.

Sources

Salaborsa Site, entry on Palazzo Felicini
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