page_title: Palazzo Compagni
section_title: Interior
hierarchical_section_title: Palazzo Compagni / Design / Interior
caption_attribution_description: Palazzo compagni, atrio
context_page_description: The Palazzo Compagni or Palazzo Cresci is a palazzo on via Bufalini in Florence.
context_section_description: Despite several alterations to its interior, it is one of the few palazzi in Florence to have retained much of its interior furniture (essentially in the Empire style) and decoration, notably frescoes, stuccowork and sculpted fireplaces.
  The main doorway opens into an interior courtyard by Zanobi del Rosso with several loggias, again with finestre inginocchiate 
  - initially open to the sky, the courtyard is now covered by a coloured glass ceiling installed in the 20th century after a project by Ulisse De Matteis allowed this space to be turned into a reception area. At the corners of the cornice are several sculpted masks.
  The two ground floor rooms include white stuccowork, typical of the early and mid 16th century white-on-white-and-gold style which began to dominate Florence after the arrival of the Albertoli brothers. On the first floor is the main salon with rich white stuccowork commissioned by the Compagni family in the 18th century, gilded furniture, a large Murano ware glass vessel and two history paintings commissioned by Sloane from Giuseppe Bezzuoli  - they are entitled Dino Compagni trying to make peace between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines inside the baptistery and The laying of the foundation stone for the basilica of Santa Croce in the presence of Pope Pius IX and Vittorio Emanuele II. At the four corners of the room are four coats of arms celebrating other important Florentine families linked to the Compagni family by marriage.
  The green room is now the office of INAIL's regional director and includes ceiling frescoes by Giuseppe Antonio Fabbrini of scenes from Orlando Furioso, signed and dated above the window to 1787. The red room includes more frescoes by Fabbrini, here assisted by Tommaso Gherardini - the main one shows Cephalus mourning the deaths of Penelope's suitors and Eos and the shepherd Cephalus. A chimneypiece with details in the Empire style is decorated with tiles made in the Ginori factory, showing several different butterflies.
caption: Main hall.
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