Palazzo Tumminello

P.za Sett'Angeli, 10, 90134 Palermo PA, Italy, Palermo

Club

Behind the Cathedral, on the northern side of Piazzetta Sett'angeli, next to the 16th-century Church of the Badia Nuova, stands the Palazzo del Marchese Artale. It was built up to the first floor in the 18th century, and the second elevation in the second half of the 19th century. At the end of the 18th century, the building belonged to Giuseppe Artale Procobelli, Marquis of Collalto, who commissioned the paintings of some rooms, decorated by Giuseppe Renda and Francesco La Farina. The latter, a pupil of Velasco, from whom he learnt neoclassical principles, put his own stylistic and iconographic models into practice in the execution of the work. The illustrated episodes of Greek mythology highlight some of the most touching scenes of the Trojan War: from the Wrath of Achilles to his victory over Hector, from Priam begging Achilles for Hector's body to the Judgement of Paris, Cupid and Psyche, the Bacchanalia. Its buildings, much older than the 19th-century elevation, run along a long stretch of the Artale salita, where the palace has another entrance with a large garden, a short interior and a water tower. Today the palace is known as Artale Tumminello