Already owned by one of the most important families in the city, the Palace was built in the second half of the 17th century and was only completed 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 that spans fifty years of painting, featuring the main protagonists of Bolognese Baroque painting, which on one hand recovers, with the link to Canuti’s mature phase, the post-Renaissance era, and on the other anticipates fully 18th-century developments with Crespi and Creti. The rooms house a significant selection of the Zambeccari painting collection, among the most important in the city’s art history.
Works by the leading figures of Emilian painting such as Lodovico Carracci, Guercino, Albani, and Crespi are present, as well as Passerotti, Tiarini, Mastelletta, Franceschini, Pasinelli, and Creti. Additionally, there are notable pieces from non-regional schools such as Florentine, Genoese, Venetian, and Neapolitan, with works by Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano, Bernardo Strozzi, Palma the Younger, Sebastiano Ricci, and Piazzetta.
