Palazzo Pamphilj of today's Doria Pamphilj sometimes "Palazzo Pamfilio". Both spellings Pamphilj and Pamphili are in common Italian usage, even though the family prefers Pamphilj. Leonie Stephanie. "The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona: Constructing Identity In Early Modern Rome" (Studies in Baroque Art), 2008, Harvey Miller. Magnuson Torgil. "Rome in the Age of Bernini", volume II, Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1986, Chapter 1 Innocent X (1644-1655) Palazzo Pamphilj Palazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facing onto the Piazza Navona in Rome. It was built between 1644 and 1650. Since 1920 the palace has housed the Brazilian Embassy in Italy,
Sant'Agnese in Agone set one urban block away from the piazza, to the Piazza Navona, a large urban space that Innocent was transforming into a showcase associated with his family. It had been the intention to build the new church over the old church which would become the crypt; this meant the new church was to be raised well above piazza level, but this idea was abandoned once construction started. The original drawings are lost but it is thought that the Piazza Navona facade design included a narthex between two towers and broad stairs descending to the piazza. Harsh criticism was made of