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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica ('National Gallery of Ancient Art') is an art museum in Rome, Italy. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. It has two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini.

The gallery's collection includes works by Bernini, Caravaggio, van Dyck, Holbein, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Lotto, Preti, Poussin, El Greco, Raphael, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Rubens, Murillo, Ribera and Titian.

Design

The Palazzo Barberini was designed for Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, by the sixteenth-century architect Carlo Maderno on the former location of . The ceiling of its central was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power. The museum expanded through purchases and donations, such as the acquisition of the Torlonia and Monte di Pietàcollections in 1892, the donation of Henriette Hertz in 1915, and the purchase of the Chigi collection in 1918.

Palazzo Barberini

Andrea del Sarto
Bartolomeo Veneto
  • Portrait of a Gentleman
Pompeo Batoni
  • Portrait of Abbondio Rezzonico
  • Portrait of Sir Henry Peirse
  • Hagar and the Angel
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Agnolo Bronzino
  • Portrait of Stefano Colonna
Canaletto
  • The Grand Canal
  • Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta to the South
  • Rialto Bridge
  • The Piazzetta with the Biblioteca Marciana
  • View of Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie
Caravaggio
El Greco
  • Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Baptism of Christ
Pedro Fernández da Murcia
  • Vision of Blessed Amedeo Menez da Sylva, c. 1513
Garofalo
  • The Vestal Claudia Quinta Towing the Ship with the Statue of Cybele
Giulio Romano
  • Herz Madonna, 1522–1523
Guercino
Hans Holbein the Younger
Giovanni Lanfranco
  • Venus Playing the Harp
Filippo Lippi
Lorenzo Lotto
Quentin Massys
  • Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
Pierre-Étienne Monnot
  • Model of the Funerary Monument of Pope Innocent XI, c. 1697
Perugino
  • Saint Philip Benizi
Piero di Cosimo
Pietro da Cortona
  • Guardian Angel
Roman Painter
  • Madonna Advocata and Christ Blessing
Nicolas Poussin
  • Landscape with Hagar and the Angel
Aniello Falcone
  • The Anchorite
Mattia Preti
  • Allegory of the Five Senses, 1641–1646 (together with his brother Gregorio)
  • Aeneas Fleeing Troy, c. 1630
  • The Banquet of the Rich Man, c. 1655
Raphael
Guido Reni
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  • Satyr and Cupid
Tintoretto
  • Christ and the Adulteress
Titian
Simon Vouet
  • The Good Fortune
Gaspar van Wittel
  • The Promenade at the Villa Medici
Valentin de Boulogne
  • The Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple

Palazzo Corsini

The Palazzo Corsini, formerly known as Palazzo Riario, is a fifteenth-century palace, rebuilt in the eighteenth century by the architect Ferdinando Fuga for Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini. The majority of the major works in the Corsini Gallery collection were donated by the Corsini family, and initially were gathered by the avid 17th-century collector.

Main exhibitions

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