Palazzo Wedekind ( Italian. Palazzo Wedekind ) is a palace on the Roman Piazza Colonna , located behind the church of Santa Maria della Pieta . The palace bears the name of the owner, an Italian banker of German origin, Karl Wedekind, and is also known for being the main office of the newspaper Il Tempo for a long time. [one]
| Palace | |
| Palazzo Wedekind | |
|---|---|
| Palazzo wedekind | |
 Facade of the palace | |
| A country |  Italy |
| City | Rome |
| Architectural style | |
| Architect | |
| Building | 1659 |
In Antiquity, on this place was the temple of Marcus Aurelius , in the Middle Ages, the land was cleared for the Ludovisi family from Bologna , and in 1659 the Wedekind palace was erected. Here was the residence of the chief director of the postal service of the Papal States , who moved here in 1814 . The palace was rebuilt by order of Pope Gregory XVI by the project of Giuseppe Valadier , carried out by Pietro Camporese Jr. [2] According to the plan of Valadier, Camporese added to the palace a portico with 12 elegant antique columns, taken from the ruins of the Etruscan city of Wei . A pair of columns, framing the main entrance, are of later origin, from the church of San Paolo-fuor-le-Mour that burnt down in 1823 . [3]
In 1852 [4], the palazzo was bought by a rich banker, Karl Wedekind , who re-equipped the interior of the palace according to the plan of D. B. Jovenal. Since 1871, the building housed the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Italy . In a short period in September 1943, before the liberation of Rome, the palace was the official base of Fascisti romani .
Notes
- Ior Giorgio Carpaneto, I palazzi di Roma , Rome, 2004.
- F Stefan Grundmann, Ulrich Fürst, architectural history in 400 presentations , 1998: 283.
- ↑ Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni , 1965: 175, corrected by Grundmann andFürst.
- ↑ Date in Grundmann, and Fürst.