Palazzo Mantua Benavides Suites & Apartments

Palazzo Mantua Benavides Suites & Apartments

Palazzo Mantua Benavides Suites & Apartments

Palazzo Mantua Benavides Suites & Apartments

The Palazzo Mantua Benavides, dating from the late 15th century, was the home of Marco Mantua Benavides, one of the most interesting figures of his time: his ancestors came to Italy from Spain and he became such a distinguished professor of law at the University of Padua that he earned an international reputation as an expert on constitutional law. The 16th century collection of Marco Mantua Benavides is now at the museum of Archaeological Science and Art in Padua’s Liviano Palace.
The Palazzo Mantua Benavides, dating from the late 15th century, was the home of Marco Mantua Benavides, one of the most interesting figures of his time: his ancestors came to Italy from Spain and he became such a distinguished professor of law at the University of Padua that he earned an international reputation as an expert on constitutional law. The 16th century collection of Marco Mantua Benavides is now at the museum of Archaeological Science and Art in Padua’s Liviano Palace.
Benavides was a lover of Art and the classical world, a collector and patron of artists such as, in particular, the sculptor and florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammannati who worked alongside Michelangelo in Florence
In Padua, Ammannati sculptured the Giant Hercules in stone that is inspired by Michelangelo’s David in marble, the triumphal arch that reflects Benavides’s tomb of the the Benavides family in the nearly Church of the Hermits
In Padua, Ammannati sculptured the Giant Hercules in stone that is inspired by Michelangelo’s David in marble, the triumphal arch that reflects Benavides’s tomb of the the Benavides family in the nearly Church of the Hermits
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