- Palazzo della Consulta
The Palazzo della Consulta (built 1732-1735) is a late
Baroque palace in centralRome ,Italy , that now houses the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic. It sits across thePiazza del Quirinale from the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, theQuirinal Palace .The palace was designed by
Ferdinando Fuga during the papacy ofClement XII and initially housed the papal tribunal termed theConsulta and the secretariat of the Brevi as well as two corps of papal guards. Fuga ordered the two-storey facade with apiano nobile whose windows have low arched heads set in fielded panels, over a ground floor with low mezzanine. On the lower storey the panels have channeled rustication and rusticated quoins at the corners. Pilasters are applied only to the central three-bay block, which barely projects, and to the corners. The roof-line of the facade is topped by a large coat of arms of the Corsini pope, and is similar to the one ofFontana di Trevi . Lower down, at the entrance, a King of Italy installed his coat of arms.ources
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