ENTRANCE
HALL
“Four views
of the Villa di Capodimonte in Naples” 1840 by Annibale
Angelini (1812/84)
ROOM OF THE
CANOPY
St. Charles
Borromeo lived here in the 60s of the sixteenth century
Family
portraits including “Felice Orsini” by Scipione Pulzone
(about 1550/98)
VANVITELLI
ROOM
“Roman
Landscapes” by Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736)
PINK ROOM
Canvas “Landscape
with Judgement of Paris” by Carlo Maratta
(1625/1713) and Gaspard Dughet (1615/75)
Nine small
works by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568/1625)
“Self
Portrait” 1558 by Sofonisba Anguissola (about
1531/1626) a great Italian portraitist who lived almost 100 years
“Through the
eclectic education of Bernardino Campi, Anguissola soberly felt the influence
of the school of Raphael and Parmigianino, through Bernardino Gatti the art of
Correggio. He painted mainly portraits of solid workmanship and considerable
spontaneity (...), absorbing the preponderant influence of the Venetians, not
separated from resonances of the greatest masters from Emilia and from Spain”
(Enciclopedia Treccani)
ROOM OF THE
BRIDE AND GROOM
Fresco to
celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini “Fame, Flora,
Gloria and Cupid” by Giacinto Gimignani
(1606/81), Carlo Cesi and others
ROOM OF THE FOUNTAIN
Ceiling “old
style” by Bernardino di Betto aka Pinturicchio
(1454/1513)
“Sts. Maurilio and Paul with the Abbot Nicholas
Roverella”
about 1474 by Cosmè Tura
“Tura
studied in Padua with Squarcione: his special reaction to the new Florentine
art comes from there. He meditated Donatello and Mantegna known before
importing in Ferrara his relentless curiosity. A peculiar care in the contours,
in the narrow folds, the unreality of the colors that are a kind of challenge,
the predilection for motives carefully analyzed and redundant, shells, garlands,
dragons, crystal spirals similar to steel shavings, and of course armors. All
elements, in short, of an imaginative and, so to speak, heraldic antiquity”
(André Chastel)
Ancient “Statue
of crocodile” third century AD
ROOM OF THE
STORM
“Landscapes
with storm” 1667/68 by Pieter Mulier aka Tempesta (1637/1701)
DUGHET ROOM
Ceiling by Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)
On the
walls beautiful tromp l'oeil frescoes by Gaspard Dughet
(1615/75)
DINING ROOM
Frescoes on
vault and lunettes by the same artists who decorated the Vatican Library under
the direction of Giovanni Guerra (1544/1618) and
Cesare Nebbia (1536/1614)
ROOM OF THE
MASK
“Roman
Floor” IV sec. AD from Bovillae
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