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PalazzoDelleEsposizioni_1 * Palazzo delle Esposizioni Nazionali di Belle Arti (National Fine Arts Exhibition Building) An initial competition was announced in 1876, without establishing any designated area but leaving freedom of choice to the planners (some suggested the Piazza del Popolo), and without indicating the amount of money to be allocated to it. It was a very vague announcement which gave few indications of any substance; it states: The building for the aforesaid national Exhibition, on an area to be designated, should occupy a space of 4,000 square metres, on two floors only, and may be surrounded by gardens. Forty projects were presented, and were displayed at the Collegio Romano. A little more than a year later a second competition was published indicating the area in Via Nazionale considered to be the most suitable area for the representative character that the building was to have, and thus it was no accident that it was located in this important urban area representing the central access route to the historic city centre. Seventy-four projects were presented. After much controversy, and not without some indecision among the commission judges, the winning place was awarded to the project by Pio Piacentini, labelled with the motto Sit quod vis simplex et unum (In the end, make it as you will, as long as it is a simple and unified composition). The construction work only started in 1880 and the building was inaugurated at a solemn ceremony in 1883. * 2048 x 1536 * (1.82MB)

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PalazzoDelleEsposizioni_3 * 2048 x 1536 * (1.63MB)

PalazzoGiustiza_1 * Palazzo Giustiza: The triumph of eclecticism was achieved in the design of a colossal building aimed at hosting all the different courts of justice. The aim of the government was to build a monumental palace which would compete with those of the past. The winner of the competition was architect Guglielmo Calderini. The site chosen at the end of a new street which started from Via del Corso, near Chiesa della SS. Trinità and across a new bridge, provided for the building a very fine perspective. It had however the disadvantage of being too close to the river and its marshy shore so that it took 22 years to complete it and the cost was enormous. The palace assembled elements of Renaissance and Neoclassicism styles with a rather Baroque excess of decoration and statues. Both for its destination and its appearance the Romans labelled it as il Palazzaccio (the ugly palace). * 2304 x 3072 * (3.71MB)
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