Ballroom, Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Ballroom, in the Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, commissioned by the prince and princess of Gangi, Pietro and Marianna Valguarnera, and built 1749-59, on the Piazza Croce dei Vespri in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The ballroom has a Baroque openwork vault designed by Andrea Gigante and enormous chandeliers, and was used to film the ballroom scene in Luchino Visconti's film The Leopard. The mansion was decorated in Sicilian Baroque style by Marianna Valguarnera and later in Neoclassical stye, with great opulence throughout. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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