Hall in the Appartamento Estivo

interior

The powerful Colonna family had lived on the western slope of the Quirinale in Rome since the Middle Ages. Over the years it managed to link together the various houses it had built and purchased over time into a unified ensemble of palaces, courtyards, and gardens. In the seventeenth century, the art-loving cardinal Girolamo I Colonna (1604-1666) began turning the complex into a Baroque residence.

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About the Artist

Giovanni Battista Magno

1591 – 1674

Giovanni Battista Magno (Magni, Manni), called Modanino, Italian painter. It is assumed that his father was Marcantonio Magno, documented in Rome between 1606 and 1611, and active in the Vatican palaces and the Quirinale in 1607. In 1624 he was a resident in Rome, where in 1633 he was elected member of the Accademia di San Luca. He was a quadratura painter and participated in the decoration of numerous palaces in Rome from the 1630s (Palazzo Cenci, Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Quirinale, Palazzo Colonna).

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