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2 unusual facts about Palazzo Poggi


Bartolomeo Triachini

Other works in Bologna that have been attributed to him include the Palazzo Poggi (1549), Palazzo Vizzani (1549-1562) and Palazzo Malvezzi de' Medici (1560).

Giovanni Manzolini

Many of the models made by the Manzolinis were purchased by Giovanni Antonio Galli (1708-1782) for use in his school for midwives, then bought by Pope Benedict XIV and assigned to the Bologna Istituto delle Scienze and housed in the Palazzo Poggi, where they can be seen today.



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Giovanni Poggio

Cardinal Poggi met Pellegrino Tibaldi after the painter moved to Rome in 1547, and later commissioned him to paint the Palazzo Poggi.