Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica or National Gallery of Ancient Art is an art museum in Rome, Italy. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. It has two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini.[2]

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Facade
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Established1893
LocationPalazzo Barberini, via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 ()
Palazzo Corsini, Via della Lungara 10 ()
Rome, Italy
Coordinates41°54′12.65″N 12°29′24.75″E
Visitors153,549[1]
DirectorFlaminia Gennari Santori
Websitewww.barberinicorsini.org

Design

The Palazzo Barberini was designed for Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, by the sixteenth-century architect Carlo Maderno on the old location of Villa Sforza. Its central salon ceiling was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power.

Paletti Corsini
The exhibition in the 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.

See also
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes

References
  1. (2015) Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, Visitatori e introiti dei musei
  2. "Sito Ufficiale Galleria Barberini – Le collezioni". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
Preceded by
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome		 Landmarks of Rome
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica		 Succeeded by
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
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