A very nice Palace in Roma, unknown to most romans and tourist alike. Here are pics of frescos in Casino Lancellotti.
The Giustiniani villa in Laterano, also known as “Villa Massimo” after its subsequent owners, was a 17th-century villa that stretched between what are now Via Merulana, Via Tasso, Viale Manzoni, and Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano.
Commissioned by Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, Prince of Bassano and custodian of the Apostolic Camera, after acquiring a plot of land planted with vineyards in 1605, he had a sumptuous residence built there.
Passed into the hands of the Massimo family in 1803, the three rooms on the garden side of the residence were frescoed by the Nazarenes: Episodes from Orlando Furioso (Ariosto Room) by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1822-27), Episodes from Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso Room) by Johann Friederich Overbeck (1819-27) and the Scenes from Paradise and Purgatory (Dante Room) by Joseph Anton Koch (1825-28), assisted in the garlands by Franz Horny, with the Allegory of Paradise on the vault, begun earlier by Philip Veit (1818-24).
In 1848, the villa passed to the Lancellotti family, who sold the vast park as building land in 1871 following the Esquilino subdivision project. As the park began to disappear under the expansion of the city, the monumental gate in the villa’s boundary wall was ceded to the state in 1885. It was relocated in 1931 as the entrance to Villa Celimontana al Celio, where it still stands today (text drawn from here – not my copyright; links are to english version of Wikipedia).
