The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica or 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.[2]

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 old location of Villa Sforza. Its central salon ceiling was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power.[citation needed]

Paletti Corsini

The exhibition in the 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.

See also

Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes

References

  1. ^ (2015) Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, Visitatori e introiti dei musei
  2. ^ "Sito Ufficiale Galleria Barberini – Le collezioni". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.

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Preceded by
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome 		Landmarks of Rome
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica 		Succeeded by
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna