A transition space embellished with wooden tables and portraits
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Portrait of Captain Giovanni
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Inlaid wooden doors
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Portrait of Teodosio Fiorenzi
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Drawing by Bruno da Osimo
Portrait of Capitan Giovanni Fiorenzi
Painting by Niccolò Frangipane da Padova, 1572.
Captain Giovanni seniore, son of Pierfilippo, was in the direct service of Pope Pius V, who awarded him the rank of Captain of the militia of the Adriatic Navy in 1568, with the task of reorganizing the coastal defenses against possible invasions of Venice, from the north, and the Turks, from the south. Later, commander of the stronghold of Rimini in 1570, appointed Chaplain of said stronghold by his cousin Teodosio. In 1585 the Pope gave him an even more important task, that is reorganizing all the papal militias. Three years later, in 1588, to increase his prestige, he asked to be admitted to the order of Malta. Finally, still on the recommendation of his cousin, he was appointed Confaloniere of Osimo in 1585. He then spent the last years of his life in his homeland, maintaining close relationships with many important princes of the time, including the Duke of Urbino.
Inlaid wooden doors
- Work: interior wooden doors
- Author: unknown cabinetmaker from the Marches school
- Time of manufacture: second half of the 19th century
- Size: 220×120 cm each door
- Place of conservation: Palazzo Fiorenzi private collection
- Materials: walnut wood and woods of various essences for the inlay
- Technique: geometric wooden inlay (bois de rose and briar-root)
- Iconography: door 1 (zodiac signs and fantastic landscapes) – door 2 (monuments of Ancona) – door 3 (four elements and floral motifs)
- Style: neo-Gothic
- Language: austere and minimalist
- Connection to a school: the spread of the inlay technique in the Marches follows the prestigious example of the study of the Duke of Urbino, whose inlays were probably made in the workshop of Francesco di Giorgio Martini. In the nineteenth century, the skilled technique of the cabinetmaker Francesco Pucci da Cagli, very composite and articulated, is recalled in the present work.
- Location: the doors were installed in a historic building in via San Francesco, Ancona. The building, owned by Professor Giorgio Umani, was bombed during the Second World War and subsequently demolished.
Portrait of Teodosio Fiorenzi
Born in Osimo on July 19th, 1854, Teodosio Fiorenzi inherited about a hundred farms from his father and married Countess Eleonora Della Porta from Città di Castello in 1881. In 1888 he already had three children: five-year-old Lorenzo, three-year-old Teresa and one-year-old Pierfilippo. After many recommendations, requested by his mother Dudda from the senator Terenzio Mamiani, a good friend of her late husband, and even from the Pope, Teodosio was appointed Royal Vice Treasurer of Vacant Properties for the Province of Ancona in 1888, receiving an annual salary of 1,000-1,200 liras. After three years, in 1991, his fourth child Maria was born. From that moment on Teodosio, called Todo by his closest friends and family, was hired as head cashier in the Cattolica bank, of which his father Lorenzo had been one of the founders and first president many years earlier. Subsequently, he was councilor and treasurer of the Campocavallo factory in charge of building the new church together, among others, with Don Vincenzo Frampolli and Commendatore Giacomo Gallo.
In 1886, he was elected city councilor. He died in 1935 at the age of 81, after having fathered ten children, two of whom died at a very young age.
Bruno da Osimo, pen name of Bruno Marsili, was a xylograph engraver and writer born in Osimo in 1888 and died in Ancona in 1962. In addition to being a wood engraver, he was also a designer of ceramics and projects for furniture, wrought iron work and artisanal worked leather productions. The pen drawing, dedicated to Count Teodosio Fiorenzi, depicts the portal of the cathedral of Ancona, San Ciriaco.
Drawing by Bruno da Osimo
Bruno da Osimo, pen name of Bruno Marsili, was a xylograph engraver and writer born in Osimo in 1888 and died in Ancona in 1962. In addition to being a wood engraver, he was also a designer of ceramics and projects for furniture, wrought iron work and artisanal worked leather productions. The pen drawing, dedicated to Count Teodosio Fiorenzi, depicts the portal of the cathedral of Ancona, San Ciriaco.