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352: 131: 25: 379:, and was adorned with a giant sculpture of the dictator's face surrounded by the word "SI" (Italian for "YES”). After the war, it housed 300 refugee families and many of the interior frescoes were seriously damaged by the fires they lit to keep warm. In 1949 the palace passed to the civic authorities and, following extensive conservation in 1952, the present installation of the museum was effected. 386:; Minghetti had led the Ministry of the Interior and served as prime minister, with offices in this palace. The oval hall inside the main entrance overlooks Via San Pantaleo, and leads to the monumental staircase with its eighteen red granite columns which came from the gallery built by the Emperor 347:
had built for Francesco Orsini in order to erect his own from the ground up. Construction was suspended in February 1798 during the Napoleonic occupation of the city, when the French temporarily took possession of it until 1802 and confiscated the recently acquired collection of antiquities it
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On his death in 1816 the palace remained unfinished and the family funds depleted. In 1871 the Braschi Onesti heirs sold the building to the Italian State, who made it the seat of the
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contained (though Braschi was reimbursed for them). In 1809, when Rome was declared an Imperial city by Napoleon, Duke Luigi moved into the palace and was declared mayor.
201: 343:. The site had been purchased in 1790 by Braschi, supported by funds from Pope Pius VI. Braschi demolished the 16th-century palace that 536: 521: 526: 89: 319:, the "Museum of Rome", covering the history of the city in the period from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. 61: 496: 467: 449: 68: 511: 108: 382:
The main entrance is on Via San Pantaleo (between Piazza Navona and Corso Vittorio Emanuele). In the piazza, is the
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inspired by the myth of Achilles. On the piazza at the Southwest corner of the palace is the statue of
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or first floor. He also designed the white marble façade on the adjacent church of
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The Mussolini façade, 1934. The "SI" (Italian for "yes") refers to the
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Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts
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for which is named the piazza in front of the Palazzo Braschi.
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period, it was used as the political headquarters of
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Neoclassical
Rome
Coordinates
41°53′50″N 12°28′22″E / 41.8973°N 12.4729°E / 41.8973; 12.4729
Museo di Roma
Luigi Braschi Onesti
[paˈlat.tsoˈbras.ki]
Neoclassical
Rome, Italy
Piazza Navona
Campo de' Fiori
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Pasquino
Museo di Roma
papal nephew
Luigi Braschi Onesti
Pope Pius VI
Cosimo Morelli

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