The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica or National Gallery of Ancient Art is an

art museum An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own Collection (artwork), collection. It might be in public or private ownership, be accessible to all, or have restrictions in place. Although ...

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

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. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any

antiquities Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean such as the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt, and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures such as Ancient Persia (Iran). Artifact ...

. It has two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini. The gallery's collection includes works by

Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, ; ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor ...

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealt ...

, Holbein, Beato Angelico, Lippi, Lotto, Preti,

Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the Classicism, classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and ...

El Greco Doménikos Theotokópoulos (, ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. ...

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

, Tiepolo,

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of clas ...

, Murillo, Ribera and

Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...

Design

The Palazzo Barberini was designed for

Pope Urban VIII Pope Urban VIII (; ; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal terri ...

, a member of the

Barberini family The House of Barberini is a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in the 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban pa ...

, by the sixteenth-century architect Carlo Maderno on the old location of Villa Sforza. Its central salon ceiling was decorated by

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

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 Pietà A mount of piety is an institutional pawnbroker run as a charitable organization, charity in Europe from Renaissance times until today. Similar institutions were established in the colonies of Catholic countries; the Mexican Nacional Monte de Pie ...

collections in 1892, the donation of Henriette Hertz in 1915, and the purchase of the Chigi collection in 1918.

Palazzo Barberini

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Narcissus - WGA04109

; Andrea del Sarto * '' Holy Barberini Family'', about 1528 ; Bartolomeo Veneto * ''Portrait of a Gentleman'' ;

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous Allegory, allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign vis ...

* ''Portrait of Abbondio Rezzonico'' * ''Portrait of Sir Henry Peirse'' *''Hagar and the Angel'' ;

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, ; ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italians, Italian sculptor and Italian architect, architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prom ...

* ''Portrait of Urban VIII'' * ''Bust of Urban VIII'' *'' Bust of Clement X'' ;

Agnolo Bronzino Agnolo di Cosimo (; 17 November 150323 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino ( ) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italians, Italian Mannerism, Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, ''Bronzino'', may refer to his relatively dark skin or r ...

* ''Portrait of Stefano Colonna'' ; Canaletto * ''The Grand Canal'' * ''Piazza San Marco and the small square to the South'' * ''Rialto Bridge'' * ''The small square with the library of San Marco'' * ''View of Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie'' ;

* ''Judith Beheading Holofernes'', 1599 * ''Narcissus'', 1599 * ''Saint Francis in Prayer'', 1605 ;

* ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' * ''Baptism of Christ'' ; Pedro Fernández da Murcia * ''Vision of Blessed Amedeo Menez da Sylva'', ca. 1513 ; Garofalo * ''The Vestal Claudia Quinta Towing the Ship with the Statue of Cybele'' ; Giulio Romano * '' Madonna and Child (Madonna Herz)'', 1522-1523 ;

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous n ...

* ''Et in Arcadia ego'', 1618-1622 ; Hans Holbein * ''Portrait of Henry VIII'' ; Giovanni Lanfranco * ''Venus Playing the Harp'' ; Filippo Lippi * '' Madonna of Tarquinia'', 1437 * '' Annunciation with Two Kneeling Donors'', 1440-1445 ; Lorenzo Lotto * '' Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saints'', 1524 ; Quentin Massys * ''Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam'' Pierre-Étienne Monnot * ''Model of the Funeral Monument of Innocent XI Odescalchi, ca. 1697''

Perugino Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous ...

* Saint Philip Benizi ;

Piero di Cosimo Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who continued to use an essentially Early Renaissance style into the 16th century. He is most famous for the mythologica ...

* '' Saint Mary Magdalene'' ;

* ''Guardian Angel'' ; Roman Painter * ''Madonna Advocata and Christ Blessing'' ;

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...

* ''Landscape with Hagar and the Angel'' ; Aniello Falcone * ''The Anchorite'' ;

Mattia Preti Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John. Life Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called ''Il Ca ...

* ''Allegory of the Five Senses, 1641-1646 (together with his brother Gregorio)'' * '' Aeneas Fleeing Troy, ca. 1630'' * ''The Banquet of the Rich Man, ca. 1655'' ;

* '' La Fornarina'', 1518-1519 ;

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but al ...

* ''Repentant Magdalene. (ca. 1631-1632)'' * '' Portrait of Beatrice Cenci'' ; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo * ''Satyr and Cupid'' ;

* ''Christ and the Adulteress'' ;

* '' Venus and Adonis'', ca. 1560 ; 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 The House of Corsini is the name of an old and influential Italian nobility, Italian princely family, originally from Florence, whose members were elected to many important political and Ecclesiology, ecclesiastical positions, including that of ...

, and initially were gathered by the avid 17th century collector.

Main exhibitions

* Andrea del Sarto ** ''Madonna and Child'' * Baciccio ** ''Portrait of Cardinal Neri Corsini'' * Jacopo Bassano ** ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' * Beato Angelico ** '' Triptych of the Last Judgement'' * Marco Benefial ** ''Vision of Saint Caterina Fieschi'' * Christian Berentz ** ''The Elegant Snack'' *

** '' Saint John the Baptist'' *

Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was an Italians, Italian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium ...

** ''I four elements'' *

Fra Bartolomeo Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Ital ...

** ''Holy Family'' *

Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (; 1563 – 7 February 1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other ...

** ''Madonna and Child'' * Luca Giordano ** ''Jesus's Dispute with the Doctors'' * Giovanni da Milano ** ''Polyptych with Stories of Christ'' * Giovanni Lanfranco ** ''Saint Peter Heals Saint Agatha in Prison'' * Carlo Maratta ** ''Rebecca and Elias at the Well'' * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ** ''Madonna and Child'' * Giambattista Piazzetta ** ''Judith and Holofernes'' *

** ''Tribute of the coin'' *

** ''Triumph of Ovid'' *

** ''Salome with the head of John the Baptist'' *

Jusepe de Ribera Jusepe de Ribera (; baptised 17 February 1591 – 3 November 1652) was a Spanish painter and Printmaking, printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artist ...

** ''Venus and Adonis'' * Salvator Rosa ** ''Torment of Prometheus'' *

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish painting, Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged comp ...

** ''Saint Sebastian tended by angels'' ** ''Study of a head'' * Simon Vouet ** ''Herodias with the head of John the Baptist''

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Galleria Nazionale D'arte Antica Arte Antica National museums of Italy

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