The Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia was the ducal palace of the Chigi family located in the center of the town of Ariccia, near Rome, Italy. Originally a 15th-century palace of the Savelli family stood at the site, it was rebuilt during 1664 to 1672, in a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style by the

Chigi Family The House of Chigi () is an Italian princely family of Sienese origin descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, which possessed castles in the Maremma, southern Tuscany. Later, the family settled in Rome. The earliest authentic mention of them i ...

. The work was a collaboration between

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his ...

and his pupil Carlo Fontana. The sober exterior does not reflect the highly decorated interiors. The palace and park were ceded to the Commune in 1988 by the prince Agostino Chigi Albani della Rovere, and now served as a host of exhibitions and events. It hosts the ''Museo del Barocco Romano'' encompassed by some of the remaining Chigi family collections. These include the following paintings: *''Four Seasons'' by Mario de’ Fiori in collaboration with

Carlo Maratti Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

Bernardino Mei The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese cartographer and draughtsman Giulia ...

, Giacinto Brandi,

Giovanni Maria Morandi Giovanni Maria Morandi (30 April 1622 – 18 February 1717) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Rome and his natal city of Florence, but also Venice. He is said to have briefly trained in Florence with Sigismondo Coccapani and Giovann ...

, and

Filippo Lauri Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. ''Miracle of St Vincent Ferrer'' Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci. He first s ...

*''Allegory of the Senses'' by

Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. Biography Mola was born at Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland).''Ecstasy in the Wilderness: Pier ...

*''Preparatory sketches (cartoons) for mosaics of the cupola of St Peter's Basilica'' by Cavalier d’Arpino *''I “feudi Chigi con cani levrieri'' by Michelangelo Pace also called “il Campidoglio” *''Finti arazzi'' commissioned by

Cardinal Ottoboni Pietro Ottoboni (2 July 1667 – 28 February 1740) was an Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, who was also born Pietro Ottoboni. He is remembered especially as a great patron of music and art. Ottoboni was the last person to h ...

from Domenico Paradisi,

Michelangelo Ricciolini Michelangelo Ricciolini (29 September 1654 – 10 December 1715) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He first studied at Rome under Angelo Canini, then joined the large studio of Carlo Maratta.Francesco Borgognone for the Palazzo della Cancelleria *''Finti arazzi con giochi di putti'' by Giovanni Battista Magni “il Modanino”; *Landscapes by Jos de Momper, Tempestino, and Egidio de Monte *''Pindar and Pan'' by

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

*''Blessed Giovanni Chigi in penitence'' by

Giovanni Battista Gaulli Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for ''Giovanni Battista''), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand ...

called "Il Baciccio" *''Marine landscape with St Augustine'' by Jos de Momper and Alessandro Mattia da Farnese. *''Portrait of Pope Clement IX and Cardinal Sigismondo Chigi'' by Il Baciccio *''Portrait of Cardinal Flavio Chigi'' by Jacob Ferdinand Voet *''Portrait of Sister Maria Lutugarda'' by JF Voet *''Portrait of Sister Flavia Virginia'' by JF Voet *''Portrait of Agostino Chigi'' by JF Voet *''Portrait of Maria Virginia Borghese'' by JF Voet *''Serie delle Belle'' by Anna Caffarelli Minutoli *''Portrait of Maria Virginia Borghese'' by

*''Portrait of Mario Chigi'' by GM Morandi *''Portrait of venerable Aurelio Chigi'' by Francesco Vanni *''Portrait of Cardinal Fabio Chigi'' by

Carlo Cesi Carlo Cesio or Carlo Cesi (17 April 1622– 6 January 1682) was a Baroque-style painter and engraver of the Roman school. Biography Cesio was born in 1622 at Antrodoco in the present Province of Rieti, then part of the Roman States. He was brou ...

*''Portrait of Suor Berenice'' by

Francesco Trevisani 200px, ''Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ''by Francesco Trevisani. The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham">Barnard_Castle.html" ;"title="Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle">Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. Frances ...

*Works by Loreti, Guttembrun, Masucci, and Kobler The park contains Roman

spolia ''Spolia'' (Latin: 'spoils') is repurposed building stone for new construction or decorative sculpture reused in new monuments. It is the result of an ancient and widespread practice whereby stone that has been quarried, cut and used in a built ...

and the remains of buildings used as part of a hunting preserve.Palazzo Chigi
official site.

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