PALAZZO GRAZIANI

The history of Palazzo Graziani can be reconstructed with some precision, above all from the sixteenth century, when the noble Perugian family of the Graziani decided to enlarge and transform the original medieval structure of the building.

Historians leave open the part played in these works by the great architect Jacopo Barozzi, known as Vignola (1507-1573), who is recorded as working in Umbria between 1554 and 1569 on several large projects.

Further work on the Palazzo, after the Renaissance articulation whose traces remain visible on the façade today, was carried out in the second half of the eighteenth century by Count Francesco Graziani and around 1820 by the last descendant of the family, Countess Anna Graziani Baglioni.

In 1818, as Bonazzi among others recounts in his Storia di Perugia, she hosted in her apartment Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Alexander of Russia. On that occasion the Grand Duke’s inexperience started a fire that destroyed, among other things, a painting by Perugino and a canvas by Barocci.