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A recent stroll through the Eterna took us to the lovely Galleria Sciarra, near the Trevi Fountain, a lovely building constructed just after the unification of Italy in the late 1880s that originally served as a shopping center. The architecture, frescoes, and glass dome of the Galleria Sciarra have just been restored and are looking drop-dead lovely, so we thought we’d share some photos and tell you a bit about this little gem.
Commissioned by Prince Maffeo Sciarra, the building was designed architect Giulio De Angelis and its interior was painted by Giuseppe Cellini, who covered the walls with the Sciarra family crest, portraits of 12 “modern” women sporting fancy hairstyles and beautiful dresses who serve as personifications of female virtues, scenes from the lives of ideal women, and Latin inscriptions alluding to the virtues to which women of the era were meant to aspire.
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