Palazzo Fava

Palazzo Fava, currently home to the Genus Bononiae exhibition facility, a private and multi-venue museum complex, stands on a 15th century portico with some late-Gothic features, while the rest of the building dates back to the 1584 transformation commissioned by the owner, Filippo di Antonio Fava.
In order to decorate the rooms of the Noble Level, he commissioned a cycle of frescoes from Lodovico, Annibale and Agostino Carracci – their first important engagement. The result consecrated the Bologna-born artists as representatives of a new painting style, based on a rejection of late 16th century mannerisms in favour of rediscovered naturalism.