Palazzo Inghirami, Volterra

The Palazzo Inghirami is an aristocratic palace with a main façade on Via Marchesi, on the corner with Piazza Martire della Liberta,^[a] in Volterra, in the province of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. The main façade of the palace was commissioned in the early 17th-century by Jacopo Inghirami, Admiral of the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany.

History

The design of the mannerist façade on Via Marchesi has been attributed to Gherardo Silvani,^[1][2] but other sources suggest that it was constructed by Giovanni Battista Caccini in 1613–1618.^[3] The palace extends into a stone gothic palace to the south. This wing was erected in the 19th century in a gothic revival style by the architect Giuseppe Partini, commissioned by Michelangelo Inghirami.

The palace is accessible mainly by appointment. The entrance portal is surmounted by a bust of Cosimo II de' Medici, the patron of admiral Jacopo Inghirami. In the inner courtyard are displayed a number of Etruscan funerary urns excavated from lands owned by the Inghirami family. The interior rooms of the palace contain a bust of the admiral by Felice Palma, and an archive of the family containing maps and drawings by the admiral. A replica of the Raphael Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami is on display.

See also

• Curzio Inghirami

Notes

1. In the 19th-century, this was called the Piazza dei Ponti