Case Mazzanti
Case Mazzanti stretches along the east side of Piazza delle Erbe in Verona, between Volto Barbaro and Corso Sant’Anastasia. Its multi-storey façade carries colourful Renaissance frescoes, arched porticoes, and upper windows crowned by round arches.
The building began as a twelfth-century granary for the della Scala family before the Mazzanti family acquired it in 1527. Alberto Cavalli, a Veronese artist and collaborator of Giulio Romano, later covered the façades with bold frescoes inspired by Mannerist art. These surviving paintings reflect Verona’s former reputation as an urbs picta, or painted city, while the ground-floor shops once served the market beneath the porticoes.
At the rear, a steep narrow staircase leads to a well fitted with iron guides. Residents could lower a bucket from the house through those guides to collect water.
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