Palazzo Netti, Orvieto

Palazzo Netti is a Neo-Renaissance architecture palace located on Via Lorenzo Maitani #9, the alley that leads west from the central portal of the Duomo of Orvieto in the region of Umbria, Italy.

The present palace with its elaborate sgraffito facade was refurbished in the 19th-century by the Florentine professor Giuseppe Smerrini under commission by the engineer Aldobrando Netti.

The Officine Netti was built in 1893, and are located north-west of Orvieto in the neighborhood of Sugano and Rocca Ripesena (circa 42.71751 and 12.06515); the ruins provide an immage of the luddite victory of nature over early industrialism.

[2][3] Netti appears to have wanted to embody in his palace's facade an allegorical vision of the fruits of industrial progress, but using a vocabulary of classicism.

The first column has "air" above "fire"; the second "labor" above "study"; the third "science" above "knowledge"; the fourth "water" above "energy"; and the fifth, "earth" over "life".