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On AIR premises are at the last floor of Palazzo del Melograno, located in Piazza Campetto. The palace, whose official name is Palazzo Casareto-De Mari, lies in the historical centre of Genoa, at the corner between Campetto and Piazza Soziglia. Now protected by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, it has been built in the early 1600 by Sauli family, based on a project by Bartolomeo Bianco. Afterwards, it belonged to Casareto and De Mari families, who currently give their names to the palace. During XIX century it has been raised by one floor. The palace offers important works of art, such as
Filippo Parodi statue, symbolizing "Ercole", placed in
the wide- open gallery. |
| The past grandeur
is particularly remembered by Domenico Piola's beautiful frescos,
painted around 1680. In the XVIII century more frescos by Domenico
Guidobono and Giacomo Antonio Boni enriched the palace. Domenco Piola
illustrated the ceiling and the walls of the open gallery at the second
floor (the noble floor) by "Pianeti" (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars,
Mercury, Apollo, Venus, Diana, Aurora) and "Arti" (Geometry,
Rhetoric, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Astronomy and
Harmony). The nickname "del Melograno" comes from the presence of a pomegranate tree (it. melograno) spontaneously born over the front door in the early 1900, and still living there. |
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