QUIRINAL PALACE (eighth part)

TEN ROOMS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

BRONZINO'S ROOM

Ten tapestries displayed in rotation with “History of Joseph Jew” 1546 three of which designed by Jacopo Carrucci aka Pontormo (1494/1556) and the others by Agnolo di Cosimo Tori aka Bronzino (1503/72) commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici for the Room of the Two-Hundreds in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where are the other ten of the series are

“In these tapestries the tormented artificiality of Pontormo reaches its peak. The simplicity of the subject does not raise virtually any concern in the artist, who has become more and more convoluted and self-effacing. (...) The tapestries have a figurative pattern compressed in the vertical direction, with no clear structure or content. It is not surprising that Cosimo and the heads of the Tapestries' factory would no longer employ Pontormo” (Hermann Voss)

ROOM OF DRUSUS

SMALL PASSAGE OF URBAN VIII

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

ROOM OF THE TAPESTRIES OF LILLE

Five tapestries 1715/20 by Guillaume Werniers from models by David Teniers the Younger (1610/90)

SMALL NAPOLEONIC LIVING ROOM

PIFFETTI LIBRARY

MUSIC ROOM

ROOM OF PEACE

ROOM OF VICTORY

ROOM OF THE DAMES

Beautiful frieze “Triumph of Alexander the Great” 1812 by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)

“Admirable work for the lightness of ornament and for the variety of attitudes in the long procession inspired by the reliefs of the Parthenon” (Carlo Bertelli, Giuliano Briganti, Antonio Giuliano)

Chapel of Pius IX

In the MANICA LUNGA (Long Wing) with five major paintings:

On the right “Madonna with Saints” 1603 maybe by Innocenzo Tacconi (active in Rome 1607/25) and “The Birth of the Virgin” 1643 by Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669)

On the altar “Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria with Sts. Jerome and Lucy” 1779 by Pompeo Batoni (1708/87)

On the left “Annunciation” by Carlo Maratta 1673 (1625/1713) and “Apparition of the Virgin to St. Lawrence” 1617 by Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647)

Garden

“Fountain of the organ” 1596 with hydraulic parts by Giovanni Fontana (1540/1614), brother of Domenico Fontana and expert in hydraulic, with decorations by Giovanni da Neri for Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592/1605)

CARPEGNA PALACE - GALLERY OF THE ACADEMY OF St. LUKE (second part)

GALLERIA DELL’ACCADEMIA DI S. LUCA

There are more than 1,000 paintings, about 300 sculptures, about 1500 drawings and a collection of prints and medals, some shown to the public, most in storage

Room of Academic Education

Selection of the numerous works of art by famous and not so famous artists who were annually presented and awarded at the closing ceremony of the public academic competitions at the Capitoline Hill in the eighteenth and nineteenth century

Collection of Plaster Casts

Opened in 2008

Five casts including bas-relief “Socrates defends Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidea” and “Portrait of Clement XIII Rezzonico (1758/69)” 1784/86 by Antonio Canova (1757/1822)

Seven casts including “Ganymede and the Eagle” 1817 by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)

Two casts by Pietro Tenerani (1789/1869)

Also works by the Dutchman Mathieu Kessels (1784/1836), the Welsh pupil of Canova John Gibson (1790/1866), the German Emil Wolff (1802/79), Attilio Selva (1888/1970), Bernardo Tacca (1780/1826) and Giulio Tadolini (1849/1918)

Cabinet of Drawings

Three sets of tables on the study of perspective, anatomy, and the system of architectural orders, all dating back to the second half of the seventeenth century

Group of architectural drawings, spectacular in terms of design but also for the techniques of graphic representation, which documents the practice of donating samples to the institution, by statute, by the newly elected academic

Confidential Cabinet

Paintings from the Pinacoteca Capitolina (Capitoline Art Gallery) whose subjects in 1823 were judged 'not decent for being seen publicly' and then removed from the rooms, with the exception of the great Bacchus and Ariadne by Guido Reni, who was exhibited until 1841 and it is now located along the main staircase

These “scandalous” paintings were placed temporarily in a 'confidential cabinet' before being donated, between 1836 and 1845, to the Accademia di S. Luca for educational purposes

Collection of Works by Contemporary Academic Masters

The collections include the works of young artists deemed worthy of the prize competitions organized over the centuries by the Accademia di S. Luca

Mascarino Fund

253 architectural drawings, 150 of which related to Roman buildings, from the workshop of Ottaviano Nonni aka Ottaviano Mascherino (1524/1606), Prince of the Academy in 1604

Historical Archive and Sarti Library

Over 42,000 books donated to the City of Rome in 1877 by the favorite architect of the Torlonia family Antonio Sarti (1797/1880), important for the documentation of architecture and art history

BRASCHI PALACE - MUSEUM OF ROME (tenth part)

The Giustiniani Bandini and the Brancaccio families

ROOM 11

 “Portraits of Giuseppe Massani and his wife Elena Battistini” 1825/30 by an unknown nineteenth-century artist

“Graphite and pastel portrait of Giovanna Massani” about 1840 by Filippo Agricola (1795/1857)

“Bust of Maria Massani” about 1838 maybe by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)

Three paintings representing the Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio 1879, 1884 and 1886 by Francesco Gai (1835/1917)

“Self-Portrait” 1916 by Francesco Gai

Prints and Photographs

ROOM 12

The photographic portrait

Collection of photos and nineteenth-century clothing

MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF PICTURES

MUNICIPAL CABINET OF PRINTS

G.B. Piranesi (1720/78), Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781/1835) and his son Achille Pinelli (1809/41) also the author of about 200 watercolors kept in the storage of museum representing façades of churches and Roman painted in the years 1826/35

Gipsoteca Pietro Tenerani (1798/1869)

Received as a donation to the museum in 1940

Collection of models and plaster models of busts, reliefs, statues full-length and monumental groups

“It illustrates almost all the production of the sculptor, a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen, participating in the climate of figurative renewal in the early decades of the century, based on the recovery of formal simplicity and ethical values of the primitive painting and Raphael, which will be encoded in the theoretical program of the Manifesto of Purism of 1842” (Brief Guide to the Museum of Rome)

Other Works in the Museum Storage

About 2,000 ceramics, about 1,000 books, about 600 pieces of antique furniture and about 1400 fragments from demolished Roman buildings including “Three fragments of mosaic” from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter

Tapestries and fabrics, including the “Six tapestry series of the Seasons with children gardeners” by the Gobelin manufactory from cartoons by Charles Le Brun (1619/90) the decorator of Versailles

Sheets of architects such as Filippo Juvarra (1678/1736), Nicola Salvi (1697/1751) and Luigi Vanvitelli (1700/73)

Terra cotta models including:

Several by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680), including one for the statue of “St. Longinus” in St. Peter

Models by Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654) and Melchiorre Caffà (1636/67)

A model by Camillo Rusconi (1658/1728) for the statue of Gregory XIII Boncompagni (1572/85)

A model by Filippo Della Valle (1698/1768) for a monument to Clement XII Corsini (1730/40)

A model for the bust of St. Charles Borromeo by Ercole Ferrata (1610/86)

Hundreds of paintings including:

“Orsini Family” by Marco Benefial (1684/1764)

“Crucifixion” 1671/72 maybe by Guillaume Courtois aka Borgognone (1628/79), the painting that Bernini wanted in front of him on his deathbed

It was in the Bernini family until 1986 when he entered the collections of the museum

“Both of the first biographers of Gian Lorenzo Bernini give news of the commission of a painting inspired by the design of the 'Blood of Christ', a work created by the artist meditation on the mystical vision that the newly canonized Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi had in 1585. Baldinucci writes that 'He wanted this pious meditation being even painted for him on a large canvas, which he always wanted to keep in the face of his bed in life and in death'“ (Gaia Bindi)

“Deposition” by Vincenzo Camuccini 1833 (1771/1844)

“Pius IX walking around the Garden of Pincio Hill” about 1864 by Pio Joris (1843/1921)

In the collection of the museum there are also paintings by Joshua Reynolds (1723/92), Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (1521/80), Polidoro Caldara aka Polidoro da Caravaggio (about 1495/1543), Vincenzo Pacetti (1746/1820) and Francesco Trevisani (1656/1746)

HOTEL CAVALIERI HILTON

HOTEL CAVALIERI HILTON

Via Alberto Cadlolo 101

1961/63 Ugo Luccichenti (1898/1976), Emilio Pifferi (1907/?) and Alberto Ressa (1902/?), built as an exception to the municipal urban plan for the Società Generale Immobiliare (General Real Estate Company)

In the atrium spiral fountain by Franco Albini (1905/77) and Franca Helg (1920/89)

The very expensive restaurant "La Pergola" on the top floor, boasting the prestigious chef Heinz Beck, is considered one of the best restaurants in the whole of Italy

"The operation, at the center of a bitter controversy carried on by the weekly magazine L'Espresso and the National Institute of Urban Planning, started in 1954, when the company had entered into an agreement with Hilton Real Estate to build a hotel in Monte Mario in a designated area for public parks or extensive building, in which it was planned a wide panoramic square similar to the one on the Janiculum Hill. The question debated also in court concluded, however, with the construction of a huge hotel with eight floors above ground and three underground, the impact of which was 'in fact much worse than it could have been expected' (Italo Insolera)" (Gianluca Ficorilli - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

Among the over one thousand works of art kept in the hotel:

Paintings

"Ulysses discovering Achilles among the daughters of Nicomedes" by G.B. Tiepolo (1696/1770)

"Judgement of Paris" by Giuseppe Bazzani (1690/1769)

"Landscape with Hermit" by Alessandro Magnasco (1667/1749)

"Flora" by Carlo Cignani (1628/1719) a pupil of Francesco Albani

"Arrival of the Bucintoro in St. Mark's Square" by Josef Heintz the Younger (about 1600/78)

"Country landscape with bridge" by Giuseppe Zaïs (1709/84) artist from Belluno who died in poverty, exponent of the Arcadian school

"Dollar Sign" by Andy Warhol (1928/87)

Sculptures

Bronze statue "Boy with Dog" by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)

Marble sculpture "The Kiss" by Antonio Tantardini (1829/79)

Remarkable collection of antique furniture and prestigious tapestries from Belgium and Beauvais, Art Nouveau clocks and vases

LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH

CHIESA EVANGELICA LUTERANA 

Via Sicilia 70

1911/22 Franz Schwechten (1841/1924)

Completed after the break for the First World War

Official name CHRISTSKIRCHE

John Paul II (1978/2005) visited it in 1983, on the fifth centenary of the birth of Luther, the first pope to get on a pulpit since the Protestant Reformation

Extremely important archeological pieces were found during the construction of the church: the "Sallustian Obelisk" now on top of the Spanish Steps and the "Ludovisi Throne" now in Palazzo Altemps

Old baptismal font with "Relief" 1805/07 by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)

MOSAICS on arch and apse "Christ with the Law" by Ernst Pfannschmidt (1868/1941)