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The Palazzo Hercolani or Ercolani is a large
The palace we see today was commissioned in 1785 by aristocrat Filippo Hercolani; the architect was Angelo Venturoli. While the facade has classic restraint, the internal grand staircase and internal decorations are evidence of the late-Baroque or Rococo ornateness. On the first floor is a room frescoed likely by Pedrini with scenes dedicated to ''Fame and the Human Genius'' depicting Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, and Democritus. Two rooms were decorated in chinoiserie style by Davide Zanotti. Other rooms bear decorations and paintings by Giovanni Battista Frulli,
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Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
or Neoclassic-style palace in Strada Maggiore in central Bologna
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, which now serves as the offices for the Political Science Department (Facoltà di Scienze Politiche) of the University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
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History
The palace we see today was commissioned in 1785 by aristocrat Filippo Hercolani; the architect was Angelo Venturoli. While the facade has classic restraint, the internal grand staircase and internal decorations are evidence of the late-Baroque or Rococo ornateness. On the first floor is a room frescoed likely by Pedrini with scenes dedicated to ''Fame and the Human Genius'' depicting Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, and Democritus. Two rooms were decorated in chinoiserie style by Davide Zanotti. Other rooms bear decorations and paintings by Giovanni Battista Frulli, Luigi Busatti
Luigi Busatti (1763 – 30 June 1821), also known as Luigi Bussatti,Giornale di belle arti
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Antonio Basoli
Antonio Basoli (1774–1848) was an Italian painter, interior designer, scenic designer, and engraver, active mostly in Bologna.
Biography
He was born in Castel Guelfo. His first teacher was his father, Lelio Andrea Basoli. His education was mot ...
, Gaetano Caponeri
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, Flaminio Minozzi
Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi (3 October 1735 - 1817) was an Italian painter, mainly of quadratura. He was a pupil of his father Bernardo Minozzi, a landscape painter in Bologna. He won the Marsili-Aldrovandi Award (Premio Marsili-Aldrovandi) at the ...
, Vincenzo Martinelli
Vincenzo Martinelli (20 June 1737 – 20 April 1807) was an Italian painter mainly painting landscapes both on canvas and fresco, mainly in his native Bologna.
Biography
He was prolific in Bologna. He worked also as a scenic designer
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, and other artists.
Of particular note two ground floor rooms, the neoclassic Zodiac Room with frescoes probably by Basoli, and the Winter Garden room - the "woodland" painted by Rodolfo Fantuzzi. Both overlook the garden of the Palazzo, which in its heyday, contained a "magnificent large garden, part French and part English, adorned with factories, small mountains".
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