Palazzo Carignano

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Palazzo Carignano

Palazzo Carignano is a historical building in the centre of Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
which currently houses the Museum of the Risorgimento

Museum of the Risorgimento (Turin)

The Museum of the Risorgimento is one of the museums in Italy dedicated to the Risorgimento. It is housed in the Palazzo Carignano in Turin....
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he second half of the 17th century Emanuele Filiberto

Emanuele Filiberto

Emanuele Filiberto may refer to:* Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta , eldest son of Amadeo I of Spain* Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy , Spanish general...
commissioned Guarino Guarini to design a palace for his family.

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Palazzo Carignano is a historical building in the centre of Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
which currently houses the Museum of the Risorgimento

Museum of the Risorgimento (Turin)

The Museum of the Risorgimento is one of the museums in Italy dedicated to the Risorgimento. It is housed in the Palazzo Carignano in Turin....
.

Building

In the second half of the 17th century Emanuele Filiberto

Emanuele Filiberto

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
style, has an elliptical center façade. This facade offers the only domestic project to make use of the undulating 'concave - convex - concave' rhythm established by Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was a prominent and influential Italy Swiss born Baroque architect in Rome....
in the church of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. The decorations over the windows of the piano nobile

Piano nobile

The piano nobile is the principal floor of a large house, usually built in one of the styles of renaissance architecture. This floor contains the principal reception and bedrooms of the house....
recall the campaign of the Carignano family with the French against the Iroquois

Iroquois

The Iroquois Confederacy is a group of First Nations/Native Americans in the United States that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk nation, the Oneida tribe, the Onondaga , the Cayuga nation, and the Seneca nation....
in 1667.

History

From 1848 to 1861 the palace was used for the House of Deputies of the Subalpine Parliament. In 1861, with the new Italian parliament, the room was too small to host the House of Deputies.

Trivia

Marie Therese de Savoie-Carignan, later Princesse de Lamballe and ill-fated confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

For the 2006 film about this person that stars Kirsten Dunst, see Marie-Antoinette .Marie Antoinette was born an Archduchess of Austria and later became Queen of France and of Navarre....
was born here in 1749