The Palazzo Marchetti is a

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-style palace located at Via Curtatone e Montanara in central

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

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. The palace, which once served as a civic art gallery, is used in 2019 as a civic archive for various family collections of documents.

Description

The design of the palace is attributed to

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, under the patronage of the cavaliere Orazio Marchetti, who purchased the property in the 1650s from the Cellesi family, and joined it to adjacent properties. The interiors were frescoed by

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (''Giandomenico''), also called Giandomenico d'ImolaM. Farquhar (15 June 1692 – 18 August 1768) was an Italian Rococo style painter from Florence. According to the contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Ferret ...

. At one time, the palace held a prized art collection. This was the home where the astronomer Angelo Marchetti was born. A 17th-century bishop of Arezzo,

Giovanni Matteo Marchetti Giovanni Matteo Marchetti (1647–1704) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Arezzo (1691–1704). ''(in Latin)''

, was also from this family.Pistoia e il suo territorio: Pescia e i suoi dintorni: guida del forestiero
by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 211.

References

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