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Doria Pamphilj Gallery

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is a large art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. It is situated between the Via del Corso

Via del Corso

Via del Corso , commonly known as the Corso, is the main street running through the historical centre of Rome, Italy. It is remarkable for being absolutely straight in an area characterized by narrow meandering alleys and small piazzas....
and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Piazza del Collegio Romano. Like the palace, it is still privately owned by the princely Roman family Doria Pamphilij

Doria-Pamphilii-Landi

Doria-Pamphilj-Landi is a princely Roman family of Genoese extraction. Legend has that the origins of the Doria family go back to the early 11th century, but the authentic pedigree is traced to Ansaldo d'Oria, consul of Genoa in the 12th century....
.

large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary has been assembled since the 16th century by the Doria

Doria

Doria, originally de Auria , meaning "the sons of Auria", and then de Oria or d'Oria, is the name of an old and extremely wealthy Genoa family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa from the 12th century to the 16th century....
, Pamphilj, Landi

Landi

Landi is the surname of:* Chico Landi* Elissa Landi, Italian actress* Stefano Landi, Italian Baroque composer* Doria-Pamphilii-Landi...
and Aldobrandini

Aldobrandini

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The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is a large art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. It is situated between the Via del Corso

Via del Corso

Doria-Pamphilii-Landi

The collection

The large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary has been assembled since the 16th century by the Doria

Doria

Landi

Landi is the surname of:* Chico Landi* Elissa Landi, Italian actress* Stefano Landi, Italian Baroque composer* Doria-Pamphilii-Landi...
and Aldobrandini

Aldobrandini

The Aldobrandini were an undistinguished Florence family whose Roman fortunes were made when Ippolito Aldobrandini became pope under the name Pope Clement VIII....
families now united through marriage and descent under the simplified surname Doria Pamphilj. The collection includes paintings and furnishings from the Innocent X's Palazzo Pamphilj (in Piazza Navona), who bequeathed them to his nephew Camillo Pamphilj.

The Palazzo has grown over the centuries; it is likely the largest in Rome still in private ownership. The main collection is displayed in state rooms, including the chapel

Chapel

A chapel is a building used as a place for fellowship and of worship for Christians. It may be attached to an institution such as a large Church , a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, or may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds....
, complete with the mummified

Mummy

A mummy is a corpse whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very high humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs....
corpse of the family saint

Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
. However, the bulk is displayed in a series of four gilded and painted galleries surrounding a courtyard. An extensive suite of further rooms have now been converted to permanent well-lit galleries, containing the more medieval and Byzantine

Byzantine art

Byzantine art is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the Byzantine Empire from about the 4th century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453....
art in the collection.

Velazquez

Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez was a Spain painting who was the leading artist in the Noble court of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait painting....
's portrait of Innocent X

Portrait of Innocent X

The Portrait of Pope Innocent X is a famous oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Vel?zquez, which he finished during a trip to Italy around 1650....
, who rose to papacy as cardinal Giovan Battista Pamphilj in 1644, is considered the collection's masterpiece. Velazquez while not idealizing the pope's countenance, is not unflattering in the portrait; Innocent X's features were by his contemporaries believed to symbolise a despot

Despot

Despot may refer to:* Despot , Byzantine court title* Despotism, form of government where power is concentrated in the hands of an individual or a small group...
ic lifestyle and vindictive character. The portrait painted to commemorate the Holy Year was commissioned by his hedonistic sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini

Olimpia Maidalchini

Olimpia Maidalchini , also spelled Olympia and known as Donna Olimpia, was the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj ....
who was his close confidante and adviser, and some say mistress. Since 1927, Velázquez's portrait was placed in a specially designated small room along with a sculptured bust of the same pope by Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was a pre-eminent Baroque sculpture and architect of 17th Century Rome....
.

Olimpia Maidalchini's son Camillo Pamphilj, defying his powerful mother, renounced the Cardinalship

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior Ecclesiology official, usually a Bishop , of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope....
conferred on him by his uncle the Pope and married the widowed Olimpia Borghese. Born an Aldobrandini it was she who brought the palazzo, then known as the Palazzo Aldobrandini, into the Pamphilj family. Following a period of exile in the country, to avoid confrontation with the Pope and Olimpia Maidalchini, the newly married couple took up permanent residence in the Palazzo Aldobrandini which from 1654 Camillo began to expand on a large scale; neighbouring houses and a convent

Convent

A convent may refer to a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns, or it may refer to the building used by the community, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion....
were bought and demolished as the Palazzo grew, in spite of local opposition from the neighbouring Jesuits at the Collegio Romano. The architect in charge of this lengthy project was Antonio Del Grande. The façade facing the Via del Corso, however, is by Gabriele Valvassori. Following Camillo's death in 1666, building continued under the auspices of his two sons Giovanni Battista (his heir) and Benedetto.

One of Camillo and Olimpia's daughters, Anna Pamphlij, married the Genoese aristocrat Giovanni Andrea III Doria Landi in 1671, and it was their descendants who inherited the Palazzo when the Roman branch of the Pamphlilj family ended in 1760. In 1763 Principe Andrea IV combined his Genoese and Roman names to the present Doria-Pamphilij-Landi. In 1767 the ceilings of the state rooms were frescoed by late-baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
artists such as Crescenzio Onofri, Aureliano Milani

Aureliano Milani

Aureliano Milani was an Italy painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Bologna and Rome.He was a pupil of Cesare Gennari and Lorenzo Pasinelli in Bologna, although he also adhered to a style derived from the Carracci....
, and Stefano Pozzi

Stefano Pozzi

Stefano Pozzi was an Italy painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome.Born in Rome, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco Pozzi was an engraver, with whom Stefano worked on occasion.; Andrea , a carver in ivory; Giuseppe Pozzi was also a painter....
(Sala degli Specchi).

The collection was first opened to the public

Public

Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private sector; as, the public treasury, a road or lake....
by the three-quarters English

England

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Orietta Pogson Doria Pamphilj, whose English husband Frank Pogson added her name to his. Her own father, Prince Filippo Andrea VI, was half English. Princess Orietta and Don Frank did much to restore the collection and the Palazzo; following her death in 2000 the guardianship of the collection was taken over by her adopted, English-born, children, Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj (who formed a Civil Partnership with Elson Edeno Braga and has two children, Emily and Filippo Andrea VII), and Donna Gesine Pogson Doria Pamphilj (married to Massimiliano Floridi, with four daughters, Anna, Elisa, Orietta and Irene). They all still reside in the palazzo. Along with the possessions of the Colonna

Palazzo Colonna

The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli....
and Pallavacini-Rospigliosi

Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi

The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi is a palace in Rome. It was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the Casino....
families, this is one of the largest private art collections in Rome; the Palazzo Spada

Palazzo Spada

The Palazzo Spada is a palace in Rome that houses a grand art collection, the Galleria Spada. The collection was originally assembled by Cardinal Bernardino Spada in the 17th century and added to by his grand-nephew Cardinal Fabrizio Spada , and by Virginio Spada ....
collection is now owned by the state.

All paintings are part of the private collection of the Doria Pamphilj family and reproduction is prohibited. S.r.l. Arte Doria Pamphilj, piazza Grazioli, 5, 00186 Roma, is the owner of the copyright on all photo reproductions of the works which are part of the private collection of the Doria Pamphilj family and are exhibited at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. All photo reproductions of the paintings and of the sculptures were taken in July 2008 by the agency Arte Fotografica on behalf of S.r.l. Arte Doria Pamphilj.

Overview

Family chapel was designed by architect Carlo Fontana
Carlo Fontana

Carlo Fontana was an Italy architect, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture....
in the late 17th century, but since altered. The ivory crucifix was carved by Ercole Ferrata
Ercole Ferrata

Ercole Ferrata was an Italy sculpture of the Roman Baroque....
.
Saletta Gialla and Rossa contain Gobelins
Gobelins manufactory

The Manufacture des Gobelins is a tapestry factory located in Paris, France, at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near the Les Gobelins Paris M?tro station in the XIIIe arrondissement....
tapestries, including those on Zodiac signs by Claude Audran.
Sala del Poussin: Landscapes by Claude Lorraine.

In the main painting galleries are:

1st Gallery: Mary Magdalene by Carracci
Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque Painting....
; Christ in the house of the Pharisee by Cigoli; St. Roch and angel by Saraceni
Carlo Saraceni

Carlo Saraceni was an Italy early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968....
; and Herminia and Tancred by Guercino.
2nd Gallery: (Galleria degli Specchi): Velazquez and Bernini portraits, antique Roman statues; and Crossing of Red Sea by Antonio Tempesta
Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta was an Italy painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or counter-Mannerism....
.
Saletta del Seicento: Caravaggio
Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian people artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting....
's Penitent Magdalene
Penitent Magdalene (Caravaggio)

Penitent Magdalene, also known as Mary Magdalene, is a painting by the Italy Baroque master Caravaggio, circa 1597. It is housed in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery of Rome....
and The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Caravaggio)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a painting by the Italy Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome....
Saletta del Cinquecento: Double portrait by Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
; Salome with the head of St John the Baptist by Titian.
Saletta del Quattrocento: works by Ludovico Mazzolino
Ludovico Mazzolino

Ludovico Mazzolino - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italy Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna....
and Antoniazzo Romano
Antoniazzo Romano

Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili was an Italy Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century....
.
3rd Gallery: St Jerome by Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italy Painting draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits....
; Return of prodigal son by Guercino; Madonna in adoration of the Child by Reni
Guido Reni

Guido Reni was a prominent Italy Painting of high-Baroque style....
; Crucifixion by Marcello Venusti
Marcello Venusti

Marcello Venusti was an Italy Mannerism painter active in Rome in mid 1500s.Native to Mazzo di Valtellina near Como, he was reputed to have been a pupil of Perino del Vaga....
; Holy Family by Sassoferrato
Sassoferrato

Sassoferrato is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche region of Italy....
; Landscape with hunting scene by Paul Brill.
4th Gallery: bust of Olimpia Aldobrandini
Olimpia Aldobrandini

Olimpia Aldobrandini was a member of the Aldobrandini family of Rome, and the sole heiress to the family fortune. Her first husband was Paolo Borghese ....
by Algardi
Alessandro Algardi

Alessandro Algardi was an Italy high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini....
; St John the Baptist by Caravaggio
Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian people artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting....
; Christ in the temple by Mazzolino.
Saletta degli Specchi: Landscape by Domenichino; St Joseph by Guercino; Angel by Titian, Christ in the Garden by Venusti
Marcello Venusti

Marcello Venusti was an Italy Mannerism painter active in Rome in mid 1500s.Native to Mazzo di Valtellina near Como, he was reputed to have been a pupil of Perino del Vaga....
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Salone Aldobrandini: antique sculptures and marble reliefs by Duquesnoy
François Duquesnoy

Fran?ois Duquesnoy was a prominent Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are often contrasted with the emotional character of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's works, while his style shows greater affinity to Alessandro Algardi's sculptures....
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Room of Andrea Doria: portrait of Christopher Columbus by Jan Mabuse

Jan Mabuse

Jan Mabuse was the name adopted by the Flemings painter Jan Gossaert; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe , as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503....
and Sebastiano del Piombo, Portrait of Andrea Doria

Portrait of Andrea Doria (Del Piombo)

The Portrait of Andrea Doria is a painting finished circa 1526 by the Italy High Renaissance painter Sebastiano Del Piombo. It is housed in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery of Rome....
. Green Salon: large mid-15th century Tournai tapestry with the medieval legend of Alexander the Great; bronze Innocent X by Algardi; Portrait by Lotto; and Filippo Lippi

Filippo Lippi

Fra' Filippo Lippi , also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italy painter of the Italian Quattrocento school....
's Annunciation

Annunciation (Lippi, Rome)

The Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi, finished around 1445-1450. It is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome....

Note: The Palazzo housing the Gallery Doria Pamphilj should not be confused with the Palazzo Pamphilj

Palazzo Pamphilj

Palazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facing Piazza Navona in Rome. It was built between 1644 and 1650.Since 1920 the palace has housed the Brazil Embassy in Italy, and in 1964 it became the property of the Federative Republic of Brazil....
, in Rome's Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It follows the plan of an ancient Ancient Rome Circus , the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones : It was known as 'Circus Agonalis' ....
. Nor should this palace be confused with a second Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj, a summer urban villa, in Valmontone

Valmontone

Valmontone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italy region Lazio, located about 45 km southeast of Rome. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 13,453 and an area of 40 km?....
near Rome; this palace, while badly damaged during the second war, is renowned for its late Baroque fresco series by Francesco Cozza

Francesco Cozza (painter)

Francesco Cozza was an Italy painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome and apprenticed with Domenichino....
, Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola was an Italy painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome....
, and Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta....
.

All paintings are part of the private collection of the Doria Pamphilj family and reproduction is prohibited. S.r.l. Arte Doria Pamphilj, piazza Grazioli, 5, 00186 Roma, is the owner of the copyright on all photo reproductions of the works which are part of the private collection of the Doria Pamphilj family and are exhibited at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. All photo reproductions of the paintings and of the sculptures were taken in July 2008 by the agency Arte Fotografica on behalf of S.r.l. Arte Doria Pamphilj.

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The museum is in the center of the photo, a few blocks from the marble monument Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.