Tuesday, March 21, 2017

DORIA PAMPHILJ PALACE - DORIA PAMPHILJ GALLERY (seventh part)

Velvet Room
The room was so named for the late eighteenth-century Genoese wallpaper
“Hagar and the Angel” recently attributed to the unknown Genoese Pasquale Chiesa (active in Rome about 1562) who also worked on the “Sacrifice of Isaac”
“Hagar and the Angel” by Mattia Preti (1613/99)
“Painting, sculpture and architecture” 1713 by Marco Benefial (1684/1764)
“Cain and Abel” by Niccolò Tornioli (1598/1651) from Siena
Busts of “Innocent X” and “Benedetto Pamphilj” (or perhaps Pamphiljo?) by Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654)
Ballroom and Small Ballroom
Completely redecorated in 1903
In the small ballroom: “The tribute of money” by Mattia Preti (1613/99)
Chapel
1689/91 Carlo Fontana (1634/1714) and modified by Francesco Nicoletti (?/1776) in the second half of 1700s and by Andrea Busiri Vici (1818/1911) in mid-1800s
Ceiling “Coronation of the Virgin Mary” by Tommaso Minardi (1787/1871)
Bodies of two saints: the Roman martyr S. Giusto, traditionally called the Centurion, and S. Teodora
“Ivory Crucifix” by Ercole Ferrata (1610/86)
ROOM G (Bookshop)
“Landscape with deer hunting” and “Landscape with hare hunting” by Paul Brill (1554/1626)
Private Apartment
SMALL ROOM OF MIRRORS
Designed by Francesco Nicoletti (?/1776)
It was the toilet room of Leopoldina of Savoy, wife of Prince Andrea IV in 1767
Ceiling and panels above the doors painted by the Roman Stefano Pozzi (1699/1768)
RED ROOM
It was the old bedroom
Ceiling “Jacob's Dream” by Pietro Angeletti (about 1737/98)
In the middle “Cradle” in carved and gilded wood
YELLOW ROOM
“Tapestry” about 1795 by the Gobelins factories with allegories of the zodiac signs
Ceiling “Rebecca at the Well” by Gioacchino Agricola (known 1758/85)
GREEN ROOM
Ceiling “David and Abigail” by Domenico Corvi (1721/1803) from Viterbo
“View of St. Mark's Square in Venice” by Josef Heintz the Younger (about 1600/78)
BLUE ROOM
Family portraits of the nineteenth century by Antonio Capalti
Ceiling “Hagar and the Angel” by Pietro Angeletti (about 1737/98)
THRONE ROOM
Twenty-three paintings of “Landscapes” by Crescenzio Onofri (1632/1712)
Ceiling “Sacrifice of Iphigenia” by Gioacchino Agricola (known 1758/85)

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