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Lorrain, and collection was that of the
a portrait of Borghese family, also now
Pope Innocent X managed by the state. The
Pamphilj by the sculpture collection of the
Spanish artist Museo e Galleria Borghese
Velázquez. The includes the amazing Apollo
Galleria Spada and Daphne by Bernini and
collection, begun by the famous statue of Pauline
Bernardino Spada Borghese by Canova. On
in 1632, is still the first floor is the picture
housed in the collection with paintings by
Hellenistic faun, fine original Titian, Correggio, and others.
Museo Borghese gallery built for The Capitoline Museums Laocoön and His Sons (1st century AD) in
it. The paintings hold collections that were the Vatican’s Pio-Clementine Museum
demonstrate 17th-century gifts of the popes to the people
Roman taste and include of Rome. The Pinacoteca (art of Napoleon and members of
works by Rubens, Guido Reni, gallery) in the Palazzo dei his family, many of whom came
Guercino, and Jan Brueghel the Conservatori contains works by to live in Rome.
Elder. The Galleria Colonna Titian, Guercino, and Van Dyck.
contains a collection of art There is an art gallery at the
dating from the same period. Vatican Museums, but lovers
Other old family residences of Renaissance art will head
are now showcases for state straight for the Sistine Chapel
art collections. The Galleria and the Raphael Rooms. Rome’s
Nazionale d’Arte Antica is main modern art collection is
divided between Palazzo in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Barberini and Palazzo Corsini. Moderna, though modern art
Palazzo Barberini, built between is displayed in the Zaha Hadid-
1625 and 1633 by Bernini and designed MAXXI museum.
others for the Barberini family,
houses paintings from the 13th Portrait of Napoleon’s sister Pauline
to the 16th centuries. Pietro da Smaller Museums Borghese, painted by Kinson (c.1805),
Cortona painted the stunning The most significant of the in the Museo Napoleonico
Triumph of Divine Providence on smaller collections is the
the ceiling of the Grand Salon. beautifully laid out medieval
Palazzo Corsini, on the south museum in Palazzo Venezia, Where to Find the
Museums and Galleries
side of the Tiber, is famed for its with exhibits ranging from
collection of 16th–17th-century ceramics to sculpture. Rome has Antiquarium Forense p89
art. Another wonderful private a wealth of specialty museums Burcardo Theater Museum p151
like the Museum Capitoline Museums pp70–73
of Musical Galleria Colonna p160
Instruments, the Galleria Doria Pamphilj p109
Museo di Roma in Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Moderna pp260–61
Trastevere, with Galleria Spada p149
tableaux showing Keats-Shelley Memorial House
life in Rome during p136
the last century, MAXXI p261
and the Burcardo Museo e Galleria Borghese
Theater Museum. pp262–3
For those with Museo della Civiltà Romana p268
an interest in the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
English Romantic p212
poets who lived in Museo Nazionale Romano p165
Rome in the 19th Museo Napoleonico p128
century, there is Museum of Musical Instruments
the Keats-Shelley p185
Memorial House, Palazzo Altemps p129
a museum in the Palazzo Barberini p257
house where John Palazzo Corsini p222
Keats died. Focusing Palazzo dei Conservatori pp72–3
Palazzo Venezia p77
on the French Piccola Farnesina p151
Empire, the Museo Vatican Museums pp232–45
Napoleonico has Villa Giulia pp264–5
The Deposition (1604) by Caravaggio, Vatican Museums relics and paintings

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