Palazzo Patrizi Montoro

The original structure of the Palace dates back to a modest house that Gaspero dei Garzoni di Jesi purchased in 1512 from Alfonsina Orsini and which was modified in a series of works carried out at intervals, in the context of a succession of sales of the building carried out by his heirs. In 1605 the palace was purchased by Olimpia Aldobrandini, who also purchased an adjacent building, property of the Arciconfraternita della Carità and the Ospedale della Consolazione. The new owner had the two buildings joined into a single construction whose façade was completed in 1611.

In 1642 the palace was sold to the Patricians, an ancient Sienese family who settled in Rome in 1537 and became extinct with Maria Virginia, wife of Giovanni Chigi Montoro in 1726; he took the surname of the Patrizi, whose daughter Porzia married the marquis Tommaso Naro, from whom the marquises Patrizi Naro Montoro, current owners of the building, descend.

Since 1690, the palace was the subject of various modifications and renovations carried out, in particular, in the early eighteenth century by Sebastiano Cipriani; further works took place in 1747 and other renovations in 1823 by Luigi Moneti. The façade extends over three floors and a mezzanine, beyond the nineteenth-century addition; the portal, off-center, has two brackets with stars and a crenellated band, heraldic elements of the Aldobrandini coat of arms, which are also repeated on the windows and on the cornice, and is flanked by two architraved and barred windows, two on the right and one on the left.

Treasurer's Art Gallery
On the main floor of the Palace it is possible to visit an artistic heritage that has made the history of Roman collecting. In the numerous and sumptuous rooms frescoed by Raffaello Vanni you can visit the family chapel, the Imperial ballroom but above all the prestigious picture gallery, intact since the end of the 18th century, which includes around 800 paintings from the schools of Parmigianino, Correggio, Caravaggio, and authentic works by masters such as Vasari, Maratta, Guercino, Pietro da Cortona, Albani, Passeri and others.