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Palazzo Zuccari was built in 1592 by the eminent artist Federico Zuccari. A painter active in Florence and Rome, he was the author of, among other things, the frescoes of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. The palace was intended to serve as an open house, especially for poor artists coming to Rome. It was colloquially known as the House of Monsters ("Casa dei Mostri"), as Zuccari designed an entrance to the garden on the side of via Gregoriana with two windows, in the form of the open mouths of monsters. After the painter's death in 1609, the palace was enlarged, commissioned by Marco Antonio Toscanelli and designed by Girolamo Rainaldi. From 1702 to 1714, the flats were occupied by Maria Kazimiera Sobieska.

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