Hercules / Heracles fights Cerberus the multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld . (Hercule affronte Cerbere le chien des enfers)Sculpture on the facade in the courtyard of palazzo Spada (16th century) (Spada palace; palais Spada)- Built in 1540 for the cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro (1501-1559). Architect: Bartolomeo Baronino.The palazzo was purchased by Cardinal Spada in 1632. He commissioned the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini to modify it.- The Mannerist stucco sculptural decor of the palazzo's front and its courtyard fa鏰des feature sculptures crowded into niches and fruit and flower swags; grotesques and vignettes of symbolic devices (impresi) in bas-relief among the small framed windows of a mezzanine; the richest cinquecento fa鏰des in Rome.- The palazzo hosts the Italian Council of State and the Galleria Spada; the Cardinal Spada's collection.Rome; Italy. 2020