Gaifami Palace

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Gaifami Palace is a historic building in Brescia. Located on Via Fratelli Bandiera at number 22, it was built starting in the 18th century by the Gaifami family at the northwestern end of Brescia's northern historic center, in what was once the quadra di San Faustino. Some of the halls and rooms of the same palace were the subject, around the fourth decade of the 18th century, of major pictorial interventions by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni and the quadraturists Carlo Molinari and Giovanni Zanardi. This makes that of the Gaifami palace a well-known decorative enterprise, with secular themes executed by Carloni in Italy.

Ascension of the Gaifami family in the 18th century: The noble Gaifami family, during the first half of the eighteenth century, in 1742 requested to join the general council of the Brescian patriciate: that family had good relations with the local ruling class, as well as connections with prestigious figures in general and affluent economic conditions. Given this context of consolidation of the family power of the Gaifami as an assumption, the request made by the latter is clear. Incidentally, at the time this application was made, evidence had also to...