The Barberini Family
ROOM 1
“Investiture of Taddeo Barberini as prefect in the
Pauline Chapel” about 1632 by Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)
“Banner
with paintings about St. Francis” 1612 by Guido Reni
(1575/1642)
“Joust in Piazza Navona” about 1634 by the great painter
from Nettuno Andrea Sacchi (1599/1661) and by
the Roman Filippo Gagliardi (about 1607/1659)
aka Filippo Bizzarro o Filippo delle Prospettive
Interestingly,
in this image of Piazza Navona of the first half of the seventeenth century,
Palazzo Braschi, Palazzo Pamphilj, the church of S. Agnese in Agone and even
the Fountain of the Four Rivers don't appear, not having been built yet
“Parade at Palazzo Barberini” about 1656 by Filippo Gagliardi and Filippo
Lauri (1623/94)
“Tapestry with Barberini bees” and painting “Constantine destroys the pagan gods” about 1636 maybe by Pietro
Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669)
ROOM 2
Medals from
the Barberini collection
ROOM 3
Busts of members
of the Barberini family or of members of their entourage:
Carlo
Barberini was the older brother of Pope Urban VIII (1623/44) appointed by him
commander of the papal troops
“Bust of Cardinal
Giulio Gabrielli”
after 1694/before 1700 by Giuseppe Mazzuoli
(1644/1725)
“Bust in marble of
Cardinal Antonio Barberini junior” about 1680 maybe by Lorenzo Ottoni
(1648/1736)
Nephew of
Pope Urban VIII, patron of memorable and spectacular parties often produced by
none other than Gian Lorenzo Bernini
“Bust in marble of
Cardinal Francesco Barberini senior” about 1680 maybe by Lorenzo
Ottoni
“Bust in terracotta of Taddeo Barberini Prefect of
Rome in 1631”
1704 by Bernardino Cametti (1669/1736)
“Pupil in
Rome of the sculptor Lorenzo Ottoni, Cametti attended his studio for fifteen
years. Towards the end of this period, or immediately after, he had at his
disposal a studio in the Academy of France in Rome, an extraordinary fact for
an Italian artist, which explains, at least partly, the remarkable influence
French sculpture had on his artistic evolution, especially the art of Pierre
Etienne Monnot and Pierre Le Gros” (Robert Engass - Dizionario Biografico degli
Italiani Treccani)
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