Rome - Palazzo (Casa) Zuccari

The Palazzo or Casa Zuccari, built by the painter Federico Zuccari about 1600 as a residence and studio, stands at the east end of Piazza Trinità dei Monti, between Via Sistina and Via Gregoriana. It was later occupied by the widowed Queen Maria Kasimira of Poland and is now the seat of the Biblioteca Hertziana, an institute of art history attached to the German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (not open to the public). The doorway and windows of the palace are formed by the jaws of monsters.