page_title: Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna / History
caption_attribution_description: Servizio fotografico&#160;: Bologna, 1969 / Paolo Monti. - Strisce: 7, Fotogrammi complessivi: 37&#160;: Negativo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ pellicola&#160;; 35 mm. - ((I fotogrammi hanno una doppia numerazione. . - Sul portanegativi: Nikon Agfa 21. - Occasione: Campagna di rilevamento del centro storico del comune di Bologna. - , presso Archivio Paolo Monti. - Fonte: Fattura di Paolo Monti: IV. Commesse/ Fattura (1969/07/31), presso Archivio Paolo Monti. - Fonte: Agenda di Paolo Monti: Monti - Agenda 1969 (1969), presso Archivio Paolo Monti. - Fonte: Fattura di Paolo Monti: IV. Commesse/ Fattura (1969/05/09)
context_page_description: The Palazzo Hercolani or Ercolani is a large Rococo or Neoclassic-style palace in Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, which now serves as the offices for the Political Science Department of the University of Bologna.
context_section_description: The palace we see today was commissioned in 1785 by aristocrat Filippo Hercolani; the architect was Angelo Venturoli. While the facade has classic restraint, the internal grand staircase and internal decorations are evidence of the late-Baroque or Rococo ornateness. On the first floor is a room frescoed likely by Pedrini with scenes dedicated to Fame and the Human Genius depicting Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, and Democritus. Two rooms were decorated in chinoiserie style by Davide Zanotti. Other rooms bear decorations and paintings by Giovanni Battista Frulli, Luigi Busatti, Antonio Basoli, Gaetano Caponeri, Flaminio Minozzi, Vincenzo Martinelli, and other artists.
  Of particular note two ground floor rooms, the neoclassic Zodiac Room with frescoes probably by Basoli, and the Winter Garden room - the "woodland" painted by Rodolfo Fantuzzi. Both overlook the garden of the Palazzo, which in its heyday, contained a "magnificent large garden, part French and part English, adorned with factories, small mountains".
caption: Statues at Palazzo Hercolani. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969
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