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Historic villa / palace, 1701
Palace Buonaccorsi
18th-century palazzo in Macerata, Italy
At a glance
- Period
- Early modern period, 1701
- Style
- Baroque architecture
- Architect
- Giovan Battista Contini
- Commissioned by
- Simone Buonaccorsi
- Protection
- Italian national heritage
- Coordinates
- 43°18′02″ N, 13°27′19″ E
- Address
- via don Giovanni Minzoni, 24
History and description
The Palazzo Buonaccorsi is an 18th-century aristocratic palace, now the civic museum of the town, located on Via Don Minzoni 24 in the historic center of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.
Description
The palace was erected on a site with some houses just inside the former medieval city walls. The Buonaccorsi family, led by Simone the Elder had risen to prominence by the mid-17th century; Simone's brother Buonaccorso (1620-1678) had become a cardinal. Simone endeavored to build a palace here, commensurate with the family's rising status. After the Simone's death in 1708, his son Raimondo continued the project, aided by his brother Filippo, Abbot of San Quirico, and employing the designs of the architects Giovanni Battista Contini and Ludovico Gregorini. The palace encompassed the former Palazzo Centini and other houses at the site. Raimondo's son, also called Simone (1708-1776) would also become a cardinal. After the death of Raimondi in 1746, the family was elevated in to the Roman Patriciate by Pope Benedict XIV, leading the family to abandon Macerata for Rome. The Buonaccorsi family returned in 1853 under Conte Flavio, and began needed refurbishments.
Raimondo and Simone were mainly responsible for patronizing the construction of the palace, and the decoration of the piano nobile. Such decoration began in 1707 with paintings by Carlo Antonio Rambaldi, and quadratura by Antonio Dardani. Abbot Filippo is said to have been instrumental in deciding on the choice of the subjects and iconography for painting, including the ceiling depicting the Marriage of Ariadne and Bacchus (by Michelangelo Ricciolini and his son Niccolo) with vaults the hall decorated with a dozen rococo canvas paintings (1710-1715) on episodes from the Aeneid, painted by among the most prominent Italian artists of the time.
Today the palace accommodates the "Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi" including a pinacoteca (painting gallery spanning works from the medieval period to modern times, and houses a carriage museum (Museo della Carrozza), as well as a library (biblioteca "Amedeo Ricci").
Overview of art collections
The palace's main floor is known for the Sala dell'Eneide (Hall of the Aeneid); the panels display events from Virgil's epic, although one canvas above the door elaborates on the supremacy of Christian to Pagan religion. The canvases depict:
The museum galleries have a broad representation of art from the past centuries, including the following painters: Nicolò Bambini, Luigi Bartolini, Marco Benefial, Christian Berentz, Danilo Bergamo, Andrea Boscoli, Francesco Boniforti (Copy of a work by Zuccari), Elia Bonci, Antonio Bonfigli, Domenico Bruschi, Corrado Cagli, Michelangelo Conte, Domenico Cantatore, Ugo Capocchini, Bice Castelnuovo, Rosa Catella, Domenico Corvi, Giacomo Francesco Cipper, Luigi Dania, Marco Davanzo, Giacomo Del Po, Gildo Di Segni, Carlo Dolci, Bernardi Eva Doyen, Giuseppe Fammilume, Pier Simone Fanelli, Giuseppe Ludovico Felici, Tonino Ferraioli, Carlo Firmani, Alessandro Gallucci, Gaspare Gasparrini, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Vitali Argenide Gigli, Giovanni Giorgi, Corrado Giaquinto, Giovanni di Corraduccio, Giuseppe Innocenzi, Giovanni Korompay, Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Johannes Lingelbach, Carlo Magini, Cortesi Giuseppe Mancini, Francesco Mancini, Giuseppe Mainini, Maratta, Giorgio Massetani, Giuseppe Mazzolini, Vincenzo Monti, Anthonis Mor, Morelli, Spada G Nardi, Elena Nobili, Orazio Orazi, Paolo Pace, Giorgio Secondo Paletti, Claudia Panciera, Corrado Pellini, Cesare Peruzzi, Mario Pierluigi, Antonio Pietroni, Francesco Podesti, Scipione Pulzone, Maria Randone, Filippo Reggiani, Gemma Rocca, Michele Rocca, Philipp Peter Roos, Linuccia Saba, Piero Sadun, Joachim von Sandrart, Santi di Tito, Sassoferrato, Antonio Scordia, Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, Laura Spadoni, Luigi Spazzapan, Ilario Spolverini, Luigi Svecchi, Tamburini, Michele Talamè, Bruno Tano, Valeriano Trubbiani, Giulio Turcato, Emilio Vedova, Claude Joseph Vernet, and Giuseppe Zigaina.
Displayed in its 19th century galleries, the museum acquired directly from the artists, Gualtiero Baynes (Macerata 1856 - Florence 1938) and Giuseppe Bonolis, a collection of works.
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Timeline
- 1701Built
- 1853Restoration
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Photos
Getting there
MacerataTrain, nearest
800 m as the crow flies
Palace Buonaccorsivia don Giovanni Minzoni, 24
Aeroporto "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara36.0 km
Distances are as the crow flies, not walking or driving.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Palace Buonaccorsi?
Palace Buonaccorsi is in Macerata, in the province of Macerata (Marche), Italy. Address: via don Giovanni Minzoni, 24. GPS coordinates: 43.30065, 13.45539.
How old is Palace Buonaccorsi?
Wikidata dates it to 1701.
What else is there to see near Palace Buonaccorsi?
Nearby you’ll find: Civic Museum of Palazzo Buonaccorsi (0 m away), Palazzo Compagnoni delle Lune (0 m away), Palazzo Compagnoni Marefoschi, Macerata (0 m away).
Sources and licences
Text. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Data. Wikidata (CC0); opening hours and contacts OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Photos. Wikimedia Commons, author and licence on every image.
Credits for the 9 photos
- Macerata, Palazzo Buonaccorsi 01 — Parsifall, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cortile interno Palazzo Buonaccorsi — PaWik, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cortile palazzo Buonaccorsi — P feliciati, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Macerata - Musei civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi - 2024-09-28 01-31-18 001 — Enrica Ridolfi, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Macerata - Musei civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi - 2026-09-08 18-07-34 001 — Cristina_Morettini_95, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Macerata - Musei civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi - 2026-09-08 18-12-43 001 — Cristina_Morettini_95, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Macerata - Musei civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi - 2026-09-08 18-25-43 001 — Cristina_Morettini_95, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Buonaccorsi — Katia Morichetti, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ingresso palazzo — Francesca Bertolani, CC BY-SA 4.0
Updated 28 October 2026. All sources and licences