Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna
| Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande | |
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| Location | Bologna, Italy |
The Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande is a Baroque style palace on Via Castiglione 7 in central Bologna. In 2015, it served as a public art gallery for late-Baroque art.
The palace was built in the mid-1600s by designs by Francesco Albertoni and Giuseppe Antonio Torri, and commissioned by Count Odoardo Pepoli of the aristocratic Pepoli family. The rooms are decorated with frescoes:[1]
- Giuseppe Maria Crespi painted a Triumph of Hercules, The Four Seasons, and Olympus.
- Domenico Maria Canuti painted the 'Apotheosis of Hercules on the Olympus on a quadratura background by il Mengazzino.
- Giuseppe and Antonio Rolli painted the Allegory of Felsina (1680)
- Donato Creti painted Alexander severing the Gordian knot
The museum's collection arise from the painting collection of the Quadreria Zambeccari, once located in Palazzo Zambeccari, augmented by other collections. Among the painters in the collection are Crespi, Ludovico Carracci, Guercino, Marcantonio Franceschini, Donato Creti, Titian, Giovanni Battista Langetti, Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Palma il Giovane. The collection has Flemish and Byzantine works.[2]