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Barberini Palace

Barberini Palace

Palazzo Barberini in Rome , is a historic building, emblem of the Roman Baroque.

Part of the largest institution “Barberini Corsini Galleria Nazionale”, the Palazzo includes a museum and two galleries: Palazzo Barberini and the Galleria Corsini.

Palazzo Barberini was born as the palace of the Barberini family of the same name.

Wanted by Pope Urban VIII, it was built starting from 1625 by the most famous architects of the seventeenth century: Carlo Maderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini and decorated by artists such as Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona who created the extraordinary ceiling with the Triumph in the main hall of Divine Providence .

In the National Galleries of Palazzo Barberini there are over 5000 works of art that include paintings, sculptures, sketches, decorative arts from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century . The original nucleus of the National Galleries in Palazzo Barberini was formed in 1883 with the donation to the State of the Corsini collection, then located in Palazzo Corsini. The collection was soon enriched with works from prestigious Roman collections: Chigi, Torlonia, Mattei, Odescalchi, Sciarra.

In 1949 the Italian State bought Palazzo Barberini from the heirs of the family, where in 1953 the new headquarters of the National Gallery was opened which today exhibits a collection of works from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century with absolute masterpieces such as the Annunciation by Filippo Lippi, the Fornarina by Raphael , Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio.

Gallery

Permanent Collection

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Address

Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
00184 Rome

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