Vault: Spectacular “The chariot of the sun” 1693 by Giuseppe
Chiari (1654/1727) for the wedding of Urbano Barberini and Felice
Ventimiglia Pignatelli
“He
participates intimately in the early Roman Rococo, of which however he cannot
be counted among the protagonists; on the other hand, his action, later
extended by Agostino Masucci, spans a bridge between Carlo Maratta and Anton
Raphael Mengs, who, for his frescoes, followed on the style of Chiari considered
a 'classic' in such decorative genre” (Giancarlo Sestieri)
“In the
Butcher, the scene is rendered with brutal accuracy, emphasizing the strong
characters' features behind whom is painted a bird, a symbol and signature of
Bartolomeo Passerotti. In the Fishmonger the fish world is presented in all its
varieties with descriptive detail and with humor as with the sparrow-signature
threatened by a hungry cat. On the left an old commoner hears the words of the
veiled woman holding a fish-ball. The presence of this curious animal, an
element required in the eclectic late-sixteenth-century collections, refers to
the passion of Bartolomeo Passerotti for scientific museums of curiosities”
(Official website of the Barberini Gallery -
www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
“Madonna and Child, St. Joseph and St. Catherine of
Alexandria”
by the Flemish Denis Calvaert (1540/1619) who
lived in Rome and in Bologna, where in 1572 founded a school of painting in
which transited giants such as Guido Reni, Domenichino or Francesco Albani
The
subjects of his paintings were mostly religious and his style, rich of various
influences, was very eclectic
“Family
Portrait” by Jacopo da Ponte aka Jacopo Bassano
(about 1510/92)
This is
probably the artist's family represented realistically and vividly
Room
XIX - Landscapes and Figures
Formerly
winter garden of the Princess Anna Colonna
Above the
doors “Sacrifice of Juno” to evoke the female fertility and “Ceculo founder of
Praeneste incited with a lightning bolt by Vulcan” to celebrate the rule of the
Barberini family in Palestrina by Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669) and assistants
“View of Villa Sacchetti in Castelfusano” about 1632/1639 by
Pietro da Cortona
Two feuds
belonging to the Mattei family: “Castel S. Pietro” and “Giove” 1601 by Paul Brill (1554/1626)
“They are
part of a series of five paintings commissioned by the Marquis Mattei in 1601
to document the possessions of the family. They have a perspective from the
bottom up that is just typical of the Flemish art that Brill would help to
spread in Rome. The views are captured at different times of the day: in the
manor of Giove the dawn light illuminates the start of daily activities, in the
other hues of the sunset invite to return from work” (Official website of the
Barberini Gallery - www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
Two “Bacchanalian of putti” about 1626 and “Landscape with Hagar and the Angel” about 1660 by the great French painter Nicolas
Poussin (1594/1665)
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