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Palazzo Chiablese

Palazzo Chiablese is the Savoy palace at piazza San Giovanni 2, in Turin, between Palazzo Reale and the church of San Lorenzo; it is part of the Musei Reali and of the Zona di Comando included in the UNESCO site of the Residenze sabaude (Savoy Residences).[1][2][9]

History

The sixteenth-century core was remodelled under the direction of Ascanio Vitozzi; its first owner was Bernardino of Savoy, Monsignor of Racconigi, and from 1585 the building belonged to Duke Carlo Emanuele I. In the first half of the seventeenth century it was home to Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy and his wife Ludovica.[1]

In 1753 Carlo Emanuele III entrusted Benedetto Alfieri, the royal first architect, with redesigning the entire block between piazza San Giovanni, piazza Reale, via Palazzo di Città and via XX Settembre; the works were completed around 1770 under the architect Giuseppe Battista Piacenza, and the rocaille decorations are the work of stuccoists from Ticino.[1] The palace became the residence of Benedetto Maria Maurizio, Duke of Chiablese, born at Venaria in 1741: rather than building him a new residence, the king permanently assigned him the wing he already lived in, which took his name.[3][4] The duke lived there until his death, in Rome in 1808; in the Napoleonic era the palace housed Pauline Bonaparte.[4][2]

In the bombings of 8 December 1942 and 13 July 1943 the roof partly collapsed; in the 1940s the palace passed to state property and restoration began in the late 1990s.[1] The Sale Chiablese, restored in 2013, are used for temporary exhibitions.[3] In 2020 the Centro di Restauro della Venaria restored the Sala dell'Alcova, originally built as an Alfierian gallery, where a desk by Pietro Piffetti, recovered by the Carabinieri in 2018, was placed.[5]

Exhibitions

From 17 April to 28 September 2025 the Sale Chiablese hosted "Da Botticelli a Mucha. Bellezza, natura, seduzione" (From Botticelli to Mucha. Beauty, Nature, Seduction), with over a hundred works, and from 22 November 2025 to 3 May 2026 "Orazio Gentileschi. Un pittore in viaggio" (Orazio Gentileschi. A Painter on the Move), built around the 1623 "Annunciation".[6][7] Since January 2026 a photography exhibition by Andrea Pirrello on Paolo Sorrentino's film "La Grazia" has been on display there, and "Still Image. Photographs by Jessica Lange" is announced for October 2026.[8][10]

Related articles: State Archive of Turin, Royal Armoury of Turin, Royal Library of Turin, Canavese, House of Savoy, Palazzo Reale

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Sources

  1. MuseoTorino
  2. MuseoTorino
  3. Musei Reali Torino
  4. Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani —
  5. Torino Oggi — 25 September 2020
  6. Musei Reali Torino
  7. Musei Reali Torino — 13 November 2025
  8. ANSA — 19 January 2026
  9. Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO — 24 October 2016
  10. ANSA — 18 February 2026

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