The Palace was built towards the end of the 16th century. for the Colonna di Sciarra family, princes of Carbognano, designed by Flaminio Ponzio (1560-1613) on the same land in which the Colonnas owned two buildings, called respectively: the “Palazzo Imperfetto” and the “Palazzetto”.
In 1610, the unification of the two distinct building nuclei founded at the time of its construction was planned. Around 1641 Orazio Torrioni left his mark by working on the noble façade of the palace, crowned by a cornice and three orders of windows.
Its monumental entrance, attributed in the past to Antonio Labacco and also to Vignola, has an ashlar arch and two fluted columns with capitals that support the balcony on the first floor. There is no shortage of details in relief to remember the origins of the Sciarra family. The portal is famous for being cited as the Carboniani portal among the so-called four wonders of Rome as the people believed it to be a single monolithic piece of sculpted marble.
Between 1882 and 1898, as part of the enlargement of the Corso, the Palace was downsized with the construction of the Quirino Theater and the Sciarra Gallery.
The palace is now home to the Rome Foundation.
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Closed to the public. The building can be seen only from the outside.
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