Palazzo Marchetti, Pistoia

Last updated March 15, 2019

The Palazzo Marchetti is a Baroque-style palace located at Via Curtatone e Montanara in central Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. The palace, which once served as a civic art gallery, is used in 2019 as a civic archive for various family collections of documents.^[1]

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church. It was characterized ..by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. Common features of Baroque architecture included gigantism of proportions; a large open central space where everyone could see the altar; twisting columns, theatrical effects, including light coming from a cupola above; dramatic interior effects created with bronze and gilding; clusters of sculpted angels and other figures high overhead; and an extensive use of trompe-l'oeil, also called "quadratura," with painted architectural details and figures on the walls and ceiling, to increase the dramatic and theatrical effect.

Pistoia is a city and comune in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typical Italian medieval city, and it attracts many tourists, especially in the summer. The city is famous throughout Europe for its plant nurseries.

Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence (Firenze).

Description

The design of the palace is attributed to Giovanni Battista Baldi, 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. At one time, the palace held a prized art collection.^[2] This was the home where the astronomer Angelo Marchetti was born. A 17th-century bishop of Arezzo, Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, was also from this family.^[3]^[4]

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico), also called Giandomenico d'Imola was an Italian Rococo style painter from Florence. According to the contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Ferretti was a pupil of the Bolognese painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Others say he worked with painter Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.

Angelo Marchetti was an Italian astronomer from Pistoia.

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

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References

↑ Archivi in Toscana website entry.
↑ Tour entries for Pistoia.
↑ Fondazione di Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia and Pescia.
↑ Pistoia e il suo territorio: Pescia e i suoi dintorni: guida del forestiero, by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 211.

Coordinates: 43°56′04″N10°54′51″E / 43.934456°N 10.914132°E / 43.934456; 10.914132

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[1] Archivi in Toscana website entry.

[2] Tour entries for Pistoia.

[3] Fondazione di Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia and Pescia.

[4] Pistoia e il suo territorio: Pescia e i suoi dintorni: guida del forestiero, by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 211.