| Sixteenth century palace, built on existing building, baroque Lecce type. It was produced by The Marra Family Barlettana, which he called the architect C. Perna.
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, the building was purchased by the patron manufacturer Donato Ceci, that the restructuring. In 1958 he moves to the State government. It has recently been restored by the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape and the Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological of Bari and Foggia.
The building has a frontage divided vertically into two levels, with lower level with bosses. The portal is separated from the side walls of two pairs of engaged columns to pilasters. A frieze finely decorated with allegorical figures separates the two floors. On it the rest of the wall structure is completely plastered. The front presents a substantial asymmetry, being pierced by a part from one window per floor, on the other by two windows. At the gateway, the first level there is the elegant balcony representation supported by five brackets, with two doors and windows. Along the central axis, the top floor is dominated by a single window, allowing a certain hierarchy between the openings of different degrading levels.
It is currently housed on the second floor, permanently, the Pinacoteca De Nittis, while the first floor of temporary exhibitions. |