Galleria Sciarra

Overview

Hidden completely silently inside a massively unassuming 16th-century palace courtyard directly behind the Trevi Fountain, the Galleria Sciarra is Rome's absolute greatest secret masterpiece of highly flamboyant, fiercely wildly colorful 19th-century Art Nouveau architecture.

Highlights

• The Frescoes: The deeply soaring four-story walls of the courtyard are violently entirely covered in absolutely staggering, fiercely vivid frescoes entirely dedicated to the "Glorification of Women."
• The Subjects: The heavily painted panels fiercely heavily depict highly idealized, incredibly elegant Edwardian women gracefully engaging in "virtuous" activities—gardening, playing music, reading, and fiercely practicing charity.
• The Glass Roof: The fiercely massive, highly elegant wrought-iron and deeply frosted glass canopy violently soaring completely over the courtyard, fiercely brilliantly flooding the vivid colors with soft, even light.

History

In deeply strictly 1888, the wildly incredibly wealthy Prince Maffeo Sciarra violently commissioned architect Giulio De Angelis to aggressively completely enclose his highly massive palace courtyard. The Prince explicitly fiercely demanded the creation of a wildly modern, deeply elegant covered shopping arcade specifically designed heavily for the fiercely affluent, highly fashionable upper-class women of modern Rome.

Visitor Tips

• Access: Because it still fiercely violently functions completely as a deeply private office building courtyard, it is wildly heavily completely closed to the public entirely on weekends. You must fiercely strictly visit during standard weekday working hours.