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Royal Palace, formerly Palazzo Petrucci, is a historic building in Siena, located in Piazza Jacopo della Quercia, in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. The palace was built in the late fifteenth century by Jacopo Petrucci, brother Pandolfo. Jacopo had bought some buildings owned by the Hospital Santa Maria della Scala to turn in his home town. The building then passed to his son Jacopo, Cardinal Raffaello Petrucci . After the end of the Republic of Siena defeated Florence, in the last quarter of the sixteenth century the Petrucci sold it to the Medici, the new masters of Siena. Expanded behind the leftovers of the New Cathedral in the sixteenth century, it was designed by Bernardo Buontalenti on behalf of Doctors and rebuilt in 1590 - 1594 . Symbol, the Medici Fortress , the Florentine dominion over the city, was the residence of the Governor of the State of Siena under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. A Mattias de 'Medici, third son of Grand Duke Cosimo II and his wife Maria Magdalena of Austria, and the Governor of Siena from 1629 to 1667, was probably the last significant intervention. Mattias commissioned architect Benedetto Giovannelli Orlandi (1602-1676) a new deep renovation of the building, at which the building became a veritable palace.While the painter Domenico Manetti commissioned "The embrace between Peace and Justice", destined to the rooms of the Royal Palace, now preserved in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena . Moreover, in the vicinity of the building, in a wing of the leftovers of the New Cathedral, Mattias built the "Saloncino" small theater court granted in 1690 to 'Accademia dei Rozzi by Grand Duke Cosimo III.

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