Galleria Corsini - Rome Palazzo Corsini Roma DSC_0414.NEF
The Galleria Corsini of Rome is located in one of the most characteristic settings of Trastevere, just beyond the fifteenth-century Settimiana Gate, opposite the Farnesina and the Botanical Gardens. It is located in a palace which was rebuilt beginning in 1735 by Ferdinando Fuga, under the commission of the Corsini family, on the site of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Riario, the former seventeenth-century residence of Queen Christina of Sweden.
The Corsini family, originally from Florence, moved to Rome following Clemente XII's election as pope in 1730. He held office until 1740. In 1883, the palace was sold to the Italian government. The Corsini family also donated their collection, assembled during the course of the eighteenth century. Acquiring the collection was an important step for the cultural policy of tbe new unified state because the National Gallery of Ancient Art began from this first core collection.
Presentlyl the Galleria occupies eight rooms on the main floor wing of the building and exhibits more than three hundreds paintings as well as furnitures, small bronzes and ancient and modern sculptures, in part located in the rest of the palace. Today it is the site of the Accademia and Biblioteca of the Lincei, which houses the superb, intact Corsinian Library, noteworthy for its engravings and manuscripts.
The collection includes paintings of the 14th - 18tb centuries, with the majority of the artwork from the 17th - 18th centuries. The Roman, Neapolitan and Bolognese schools are well represented here with important core collections of bambocciante and landscape painters as well as great foreign artists. Among the most important painters, featured are: Beato Angelico, Fra' Bartolomeo, Iacopo Bassano, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Poussin, Caravaggio and Ribera, but there are also Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Mattia Preti, Andrea del Sarto, Salvator Rosa, Gaspard Dughet, Luca Giordano, Piazzetta, Maratta and many olhers.
Of special historical note is Queen Christina of Sweden's bedroom with frescoes from the Zuccari school, dating from the end of the sixteenth century.
Galleria Corsini - Rome Palazzo Corsini Roma DSC_0414.NEF
The Galleria Corsini of Rome is located in one of the most characteristic settings of Trastevere, just beyond the fifteenth-century Settimiana Gate, opposite the Farnesina and the Botanical Gardens. It is located in a palace which was rebuilt beginning in 1735 by Ferdinando Fuga, under the commission of the Corsini family, on the site of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Riario, the former seventeenth-century residence of Queen Christina of Sweden.
The Corsini family, originally from Florence, moved to Rome following Clemente XII's election as pope in 1730. He held office until 1740. In 1883, the palace was sold to the Italian government. The Corsini family also donated their collection, assembled during the course of the eighteenth century. Acquiring the collection was an important step for the cultural policy of tbe new unified state because the National Gallery of Ancient Art began from this first core collection.
Presentlyl the Galleria occupies eight rooms on the main floor wing of the building and exhibits more than three hundreds paintings as well as furnitures, small bronzes and ancient and modern sculptures, in part located in the rest of the palace. Today it is the site of the Accademia and Biblioteca of the Lincei, which houses the superb, intact Corsinian Library, noteworthy for its engravings and manuscripts.
The collection includes paintings of the 14th - 18tb centuries, with the majority of the artwork from the 17th - 18th centuries. The Roman, Neapolitan and Bolognese schools are well represented here with important core collections of bambocciante and landscape painters as well as great foreign artists. Among the most important painters, featured are: Beato Angelico, Fra' Bartolomeo, Iacopo Bassano, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Poussin, Caravaggio and Ribera, but there are also Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Mattia Preti, Andrea del Sarto, Salvator Rosa, Gaspard Dughet, Luca Giordano, Piazzetta, Maratta and many olhers.
Of special historical note is Queen Christina of Sweden's bedroom with frescoes from the Zuccari school, dating from the end of the sixteenth century.