QUIRINAL PALACE (third part)

Pauline Chapel

1617 Carlo Maderno

Same size as the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

Vault gilded in stucco with rosettes all different from each other built in 1616 by Martino Ferrabosco (active in Rome from 1606/d. 1623)

The vault should have been painted by Agostino Tassi (1578/1644) and the wall behind the altar by Andrea Commodi, the first master of Pietro da Cortona, but the project was not carried out

Monochrome frescoes on the walls “Apostles and Evangelists” 1818 by eleven painters including Tommaso Minardi (1787/1871) and Agostino Tofanelli under the direction of Raffaele Stern (1774/1820)

Four conclaves (elections of popes) took place here in the nineteenth century including the one that elected Pius IX Mastai Ferretti (1846/78)

Room of the seasons

In the vault “Seasons” and at the center “Allegory of Time” 1905 by Alessandro Palombi (active since the end of the XIX/beginning of the XX century) and Ernesto Ballarini (1845/1922)

“Bust of Gallienus (253/268)” third century AD

First Ceremonial Room

Designed by Carlo Maderno

Frieze “Stories of St. Paul” in 1616 by Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)

In the vault “The fruits of peace” 1906 by Alessandro Palombi and Ernesto Ballarini

Canvas “Chastity punishes love” by Francesco Mancini (1679/1758)

Room of the Virtues

Designed by Carlo Maderno

Frieze “Four virtues” 1616 by Cesare Rossetti (active 1593/1620) and “Landscapes” school of Paul Brill (1554/1626)

Vault mid-nineteenth century maybe by Alessandro Mantovani

Tapestry “Mercury petrifies Aglaurus” about 1550 by the Belgian school of Jean and Guillaume Dermoyen