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Barberini Palace
Designed as a culmination of the ascent of a papal family, the huge complex of Palazzo Barberini was built by the Florentine Pope Urban VIII, who in 1625, two years after rising to the papacy, taking advantage of a financial setbacks suffered by the Sforza of Santa Fiora, bought their vast plot of land between the Via Quattro Fontane and Via Pia (now Via XX Settembre) with its finely decorated buildings, to realize the grand plan of a palace-villa able to compete with the most luxurious residences of the Roman nobility .
The area, located within the limits of the inhabited area, allowed it to fulfill the dual function of delights open house on green belt tight around the village and ancient urban palace originally It looks over the Piazza Barberini, this vocation, already inherent to the Palazzo Sforza, was strengthened with the construction of the Barberini, discarded the initial idea of joining the traditional type of urban palace quadrangle with a courtyard, was designed by Maderno according to a scheme which provided for open development site plan to the building with the construction of H two parallel wings joined by a pod with porch access and fake upper gallery, in this area connection - part of joint representation to the two wings housing - focused interventions most representative of Bernini who took over in 1629 as director of the shipyard helped also by Borromini, Maderno and nephew already working in the factory. These two names are bound to some of the most significant of the building, as the scale oval of the right wing, made echoing the same staircase by Borromini in Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, the monumental quadrangular signed Bernini over the oval room and the impressive double-height hall which between 1633 and 1639 by Pietro da Cortona will carry the famous fresco The Triumph of Divine Providence, allegorical exaltation of the glory of the Barberini family. The building was purchased by the Italian in 1949 and, despite the difficult coexistence with other institutions already tenants of the Barberini, intended to house the National Gallery of Ancient Art was established in 1895 and ever assembled. Closely linked to another nucleus present at Palazzo Corsini, the Galleria was initially divided chronologically that addressing the older works (until the sixteenth century) at the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini later: the mechanical division was overtaken by the redevelopment of 1984 that did justice to the Corsini collection, reassembled and reunited with its historic headquarters, leaving the task of reuniting the Palazzo Barberini, always are arranged chronologically, the works variously acquired by the State on the antiques market or bequests and donations from different nuclei collectible now missing. Same remarkable Barberini collection remains only a small portion sold to the State with special law enacted in 1934 in exchange for the possibility of having to taste the rest of the collection, which went so incredibly lost. The collections currently in force at the museum, not to mention the "third tunnel" formed by the works in storage with external agencies and ministries, has about 1500 paintings and more than 2,000 objects of decorative art and furnishings that include objects from the former Museum of Industrial Art, the nucleus remains the more important of the paintings that includes many masterpieces, especially the century XVI and XVII. The collection, which often works are particularly significant in the production of individual authors, moves from the twelfth-century icon from S. Maria in Campo Marzio and crosses through some of the thirteenth century, works of Giotto's fourteenth century and the famous Madonna Corneto Tarquinia Filippo Lippi, comes to the production of the '500 and '600, a real jewel in the crown of the tunnel. Including paintings by Andrea del Sarto, Beccafumi Sodom, Bronzino, Lotto, Tintoretto, Titian and El Greek, stands the famous Raphael and the Fornarina Judith cuts the head of Holofernes by Caravaggio opens the path to high art with its seventeenth-century Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Lanfranco, Bernini, Poussin, Pietro da Cortona Gaulle and Maratta. Well represented even eighteenth-century painting, divided for schools, offers a fairly complete overview of Italian painting of the period plus an interesting core of the French paintings from the collection Cervinara; crown visiting the charming apartment that set up, with rare and precious decorations, Cornelia Costanza Barberini in the second half of the century, a small jewel of taste of which there are also some of the most interesting pieces of decorative art under the museum. Address: Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 Hours: Tue-Sun 8:30 to 19:30 hours Closed Monday, December 25, January 1 Prices: Adults: € 5.00 Reduced: € 3.00 Free under 18 and over 65 EU Phone: 0039 06 4824184-06 4814591 Phone: 06 32810 Tickets and path to the museum Fax: 0039 06 4880560 Website: www .galleriaborghese.it / barberini / en / Email: info.polomuseale @ libero.it Email: info.tour @ libero.it
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Barberini Palace
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Designed as a culmination of the ascent of a papal family, the huge complex of Palazzo Barberini was built by the Florentine Pope Urban VIII, who in 1625, two years after rising to the papacy, taking advantage of a financial setbacks suffered by the Sforza of Santa Fiora, bought their vast plot of land between the Via Quattro Fontane and Via Pia (now Via XX Settembre) with its finely decorated buildings, to realize the grand plan of a palace-villa able to compete with the most luxurious residences of the Roman nobility . The area, located within the limits of the inhabited area, allowed it to fulfill the dual function of delights open house on green belt tight around the village and ancient urban palace originally It looks over the Piazza Barberini, this vocation, already inherent to the Palazzo Sforza, was strengthened with the construction of the Barberini, discarded the initial idea of joining the traditional type of urban palace quadrangle with a courtyard, was designed by Maderno according to a scheme which provided for open development site plan to the building with the construction of H two parallel wings joined by a pod with porch access and fake upper gallery, in this area connection - part of joint representation to the two wings housing - focused interventions most representative of Bernini who took over in 1629 as director of the shipyard helped also by Borromini, Maderno and nephew already working in the factory. These two names are bound to some of the most significant of the building, as the scale oval of the right wing, made echoing the same staircase by Borromini in Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, the monumental quadrangular signed Bernini over the oval room and the impressive double-height hall which between 1633 and 1639 by Pietro da Cortona will carry the famous fresco The Triumph of Divine Providence, allegorical exaltation of the glory of the Barberini family. The building was purchased by the Italian in 1949 and, despite the difficult coexistence with other institutions already tenants of the Barberini, intended to house the National Gallery of Ancient Art was established in 1895 and ever assembled. Closely linked to another nucleus present at Palazzo Corsini, the Galleria was initially divided chronologically that addressing the older works (until the sixteenth century) at the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini later: the mechanical division was overtaken by the redevelopment of 1984 that did justice to the Corsini collection, reassembled and reunited with its historic headquarters, leaving the task of reuniting the Palazzo Barberini, always are arranged chronologically, the works variously acquired by the State on the antiques market or bequests and donations from different nuclei collectible now missing. Same remarkable Barberini collection remains only a small portion sold to the State with special law enacted in 1934 in exchange for the possibility of having to taste the rest of the collection, which went so incredibly lost. The collections currently in force at the museum, not to mention the "third tunnel" formed by the works in storage with external agencies and ministries, has about 1500 paintings and more than 2,000 objects of decorative art and furnishings that include objects from the former Museum of Industrial Art, the nucleus remains the more important of the paintings that includes many masterpieces, especially the century XVI and XVII. The collection, which often works are particularly significant in the production of individual authors, moves from the twelfth-century icon from S. Maria in Campo Marzio and crosses through some of the thirteenth century, works of Giotto's fourteenth century and the famous Madonna Corneto Tarquinia Filippo Lippi, comes to the production of the '500 and '600, a real jewel in the crown of the tunnel. Including paintings by Andrea del Sarto, Beccafumi Sodom, Bronzino, Lotto, Tintoretto, Titian and El Greek, stands the famous Raphael and the Fornarina Judith cuts the head of Holofernes by Caravaggio opens the path to high art with its seventeenth-century Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Lanfranco, Bernini, Poussin, Pietro da Cortona Gaulle and Maratta. Well represented even eighteenth-century painting, divided for schools, offers a fairly complete overview of Italian painting of the period plus an interesting core of the French paintings from the collection Cervinara; crown visiting the charming apartment that set up, with rare and precious decorations, Cornelia Costanza Barberini in the second half of the century, a small jewel of taste of which there are also some of the most interesting pieces of decorative art under the museum. Address: Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 Hours: Tue-Sun 8:30 to 19:30 hours Closed Monday, December 25, January 1 Prices: Adults: € 5.00 Reduced: € 3.00 Free under 18 and over 65 EU Phone: 0039 06 4824184-06 4814591 Phone: 06 32810 Tickets and path to the museum Fax: 0039 06 4880560 Website: www .galleriaborghese.it / barberini / en / Email: info.polomuseale @ libero.it Email: info.tour @ libero.it |
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