Palazzo Della Marra represents a significant example of a late-Renaissance residence in Barletta.
Built in the sixteenth century over a pre-existing building, before being acquired by the Della Marra family in 1633, it belonged to Lelio Orsini, count of Pacentro, Tagliacozzo and Oppido, who at the end of the sixteenth century decided to renovate the building.
As we learn from documentary evidence, the loggia at the rear of the building, decorated with busts of emperors in relief, dates back to this phase of work.
It was supposed to feature an external cladding with diamond-point ashlar to emulate the one displayed on Palazzo Affaitati. This cannot be found today.
The balcony above the portal, with its redundant decorative apparatus, probably belongs to the seventeenth-century phase. Along the string course treated in ashlar that delimits the ground floor from the upper floor, the letters that make up the name of the Della Marra family can be seen, as well as a coat of arms that appears between two windows on the main floor.
The portal is also particularly interesting, framed by "banded" columns placed against pilasters.
Currently, Palazzo Della Marra is home to the De Nittis Art Gallery.