Once owned by one of the city’s most important families, the Palace was built in the second half of the 17th century, with completion only occurring in the first decade of the following century.
The Hall and the four large rooms were frescoed by Domenico Maria Canuti, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and Donato Creti, in a journey spanning fifty years of painting featuring the main protagonists of Baroque-era Bolognese painting. On one hand, it recovers the post-Renaissance era through the mature phase of Canuti, and on the other, anticipates fully 18th-century developments through Crespi and Creti. The rooms host a significant selection from the Zambeccari art collection, one of the most important in the city’s artistic history.
Works by leading masters of Emilian painting like Lodovico Carracci, Guercino, Albani, and Crespi are present, as well as Passerotti, Tiarini, Mastelletta, Franceschini, Pasinelli, and Creti. Additionally, there are prominent testimonies of non-regional schools such as Florentine, Genoese, Venetian, and Neapolitan with works by Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano, Bernardo Strozzi, Palma il Giovane, Sebastiano Ricci, and Piazzetta.
