Palazzo Spaletti-Trivelli

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Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli (formerly Guicciardi) is a palace located at Via Emilia A San Pietro #2, corner with Via San Nicolò, in the center of the city of Reggio Emilia, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The building now belongs to the Credito Emiliano (Credem) bank, and owns the art collection now in the palace.

The building was erected atop ancient Roman ruins, still visible in the basement. A large house or palace was owned by the Bosi Family until 1685. It was rebuilt in the 1700s under the patronage of the new owner Count Guicciardi using designs by the architect Giovanni Maria Ferraroni, and refurbished in the early 1800s in a Neoclassical style by Pietro Marchelli, when the palace was acquired by the Spalletti-Trivelli family, who also owned the adjacent building.

A salon of the piano nobile has a ceiling painting depicting Apollo with the Court of the Hours by Prospero Minghetti, and a ball room with trompe-l'œil colonnades and curtains painted by Vincenzo Carnevali. In addition, the bank houses here its collection of Emilian paintings and Oriental art, viewable by appointment. The painting collection includes the following works;

- Madonna and Child by Francesco Raibolini ("Il Francia")

- Burial of St Stefano by Lorenzo Sabbatini

- Adoration of the Magi by Dionisio Calvart

- Congedo di Cristo dalla Madre by Scarsellino

- St Joseph and the Angel by Scarsellino

- Peter denying Jesus by Camillo Procaccini

- Death of the Virgin by Camillo Procaccini

- Death of St Paul by Camillo Procaccini

- Coronation of the Virgin by Follower of Annibale Carracci

- Moses and the Tables of the Law by Guido Reni

- Salome and the Head of John the Baptist by Leonello Spada

- Expulsion of Adam and Eve by Francesco Albani

- Madonna della Ghiara di Reggio by Isidoro Bianchi

- David with the Head of Goliath by Luca Ferrari, called Luca da Reggio

- Salome and the Head of John the Baptist by Luca da Reggio

- Miracle of St Antony of Padua by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

- Angelica and Medoro by Simone Cantarini