The Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, also known as ''Palazzo Pepoli Nuovo'', is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style palace on Via Castiglione 7 in central

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In 2015, it served as a public art gallery for late-

art. Across the Via, rises the medieval ''

Palazzo Pepoli Vecchio The Palazzo Pepoli Vecchio is a Medieval palace located on Via Castiglione number 8, in central Bologna, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The merlonated brick Gothic-style building is now the civic ''Museum of the History of Bologna''. It stands ac ...

'', also once pertaining to the same family, which now serves as a museum of the history of Bologna. Canuti_Hercules_acogido_en_el_Olimpo_Palazzo_Pepoli_Campogrande

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History

The palace was built in the mid-1600s by designs by

Francesco Albertoni Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...

and

Giuseppe Antonio Torri Giuseppe Antonio Torri (1655 – c. 1713) was an Italian architect of the early 18th century. He was born and died in Bologna, where he was active in a late-Baroque style. His surname is also spelled Tórri. He initially trained with his fat ...

, and commissioned by Count Odoardo Pepoli of the aristocratic

Pepoli The Pepoli are an aristocratic banking family of Bologna, in northern Italy. They were lords of the city for thirteen years in the fourteenth century. A branch of the family moved to Trapani in Sicily and were granted several feudal lordships and ...

family. In the 20th century, the new owner Edvige Campogrande donated this floor to the city for the establishment of a museum. The entrance has monumental staircase leading to a piano nobile with frescoed rooms. The ceiling of the staircase has two ovals (1665) framed by stucco and painted by

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 ...

, depicting the ''Nomination of Taddeo Pepoli to be a Lord (Senator) of Bologna'' and when ''Taddeo Confirmed as Apostolic Vicar of the Pope''. The ceilings are decorated with frescoes: * The Salone d'onore (Hall of Honor) has a ceiling fresco depicting the Apotheosis of Hercules on the Olympus'' by Canuti on a

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 ...

background by il Mengazzino. * The Sala di Felsina has a round ''Allegory of Felsina (Bologna)'' (1680) by Giuseppe and

Antonio Rolli Antonio Rolli or Roli (1643–1695) is an Italian painter active painting quadrature during the Baroque period, mainly in his native Bologna. Biography He trained with Angelo Michele Colonna and worked alongside his brother ''Giuseppe'' or ' ...

. * The Sala delle Stagione (Hall of the Seasons) depicts the ''Four Seasons with the Transit of Hercules'' painted by

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now mo ...

. Giuseppe maria crespi, trionfo di ercole, 1691-1702 ca., sala delle stagioni di pal. pepoli 02.jpg, Spring Giuseppe maria crespi, trionfo di ercole, 1691-1702 ca., sala delle stagioni di pal. pepoli 04.jpg, Summer Giuseppe maria crespi, trionfo di ercole, 1691-1702 ca., sala delle stagioni di pal. pepoli 05.jpg, Fall Giuseppe maria crespi, trionfo di ercole, 1691-1702 ca., sala delle stagioni di pal. pepoli 03.jpg, Winter * The Sala dell'Olimpo is decorated with a ''Gods of Olympus'' also by Crespi. * The Sala di Alessandro was frescoed with an ''Alexander severing the Gordian knot'' by

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...

. The walls of these rooms display a collection of paintings, the core of which arose from the canvases assembled by the Zambeccari family; this collection was once located in Palazzo Zambeccari. In 1788, the paintings was willed to a public museum by marchese Giacomo Zambeccari, and became part of the Pinacoteca of Bologna in 1884. Over the time the display was augmented by a selection of other mainly baroque works. Among the painters in the collection are Crespi,

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

Marcantonio Franceschini Marcantonio Franceschini (; 1648 – 24 December 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.''The picture collector's manual'' by James R. Hobb ...

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

, Giovanni Battista Langetti,

Bernardo Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintin ...

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

, and

Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

. The collection also has Flemish and Byzantine works.Museo di Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande.

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