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» See also Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and Palazzo Doria Pamphilj of ValmontonePalazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facing Piazza Navona in Rome. It was built between 1644 and 1650.
The original palace was built in
1630 over a series of houses already property of the powerful
Pamphilj family, and had late
Renaissance forms. But when the commissioner, Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, became pope in
1644 as
Innocent X, the family decided the palace wasn't enough for their increased prestige and started a new and more magnificent building. The architect commissioned was
Girolamo Rainaldi. The new project inglobated some of the neighbouring buildings, including the former palace of the Pamphilj (whose decoration by
Agostino Tassi was partially preserved) and the Palazzo Cybo.
The interior has three courtyards. The halls are highly and splendidly decorated: the noble plan has 23 rooms frescoes by famous artists including
Giacinto Gimignani,
Gaspard Dughet,
Andrea Camassei,
Giacinto Brandi,
Francesco Allegrini,
Pier Francesco Mola.
Pietro da Cortona in
1651-
1654 painted the long gallery, designed by
Borromini, with the
Enea's Histories.
The new
palazzo was later the home of
Innocent's widowed sister-in-law
Olimpia Maidalchini, who was his unpopular confidante and advisor, and speculated to have been his
mistress. Olimpia Maidalchini was the mother of
Camillo Pamphilj, the one time
cardinal, who through his marriage came into the possession of the Palazzo Aldobrandini, now known as the
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.
When the
Pamphilj settled in their new palace, the building in
Piazza Navona was let, housing, among the others, to the
Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
Confusingly, until the unification of the
Doria and Pamphilj surnames both palazzi were known as Palazzo Pamphilj, or in the case of today's Doria Pamphilj sometimes "Palazzo Pamfilio". Both spellings Pamphilj and Pamphili are in common
Italian usage, even though the family prefers Pamphilj.
Since 1920 the palace has housed the
Brazilian embassy in
Italy, and in 1964 it became the property of the
Federative Republic of Brazil.
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