All noble
Roman families had a room dedicated to the pope with a throne facing the wall
that was turned when the pope would honor the palace of one of his visits
In this
room there is a portrait of the only one but nevertheless very important pope who
was a member of the family, Martin V Colonna (1417/31) who did return the papal
seat to Rome after the period spent in Avignon (France) in the fourteenth century
“Portrait of Martin V” copy from original by Antonio
Pisano aka Pisanello (about 1390/about 1455)
“Portrait of Marcantonio II Colonna” and “Portrait of Felice Orsini
Colonna” by Scipione Pulzone (about 1550/98)
Room
of the Pre Renaissance Painters
“Portrait of Maria Mancini Colonna” by the German Caspar Netscher
Maria
Mancini was a nephew of Cardinal Mazarin, and from being just a maid, she came
to become the mistress of the king of France, the Sun King Louis XIV who fell in love madly to the point of learning Italian for her
The
king wanted to marry her but in the end his uncle Cardinal did not considered
it appropriate and Mary ended up marrying Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and they had
three children
It seems
that the Prince Colonna as he unexpectedly discovered that Mary was a virgin,
commented: One would not expect to find innocence among the loves of kings
“Maria
Mancini was allowed to continue to live in 'her French way', as it was then
called, or to maintain an intense social life, even independently from her husband.
Moreover, the couple looked close and stood out in the Roman aristocratic
world, animating important theatrical and musical activity that was a magnet
for the lay and ecclesiastical nobility” (Stefano Tabacchi - Dizionario
Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
“Resurrection of Christ and members of the Colonna
family” 1623
by Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669)
“Birth of
the Virgin Mary” about 1635 by Francesco Cozza
(1605/82)
“Madonna Enthroned” by Stefano da Verona
or Stefano da Zevio (about 1374/about 1448)
“One of the
most important exponents of the Courtly Gothic in northern Italy. He was active
between 1425 and 1438, in Verona, where he painted frescoes, now in a very bad
state (...), and the beautiful panel with the Adoration of the Magi (1435
Brera). His personality and his formation remain a problem: some documents say
he was of French origin” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
Two panels “The
Seven Joys” and “The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin” by the Flemish Bernard van Orley (about
1491/1542)
“Moses with
the tablets of the Law” by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666)
“Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist”, “St.
Andrew” and “St. Catherine of Alexandria” by Girolamo Siciolante
da Sermoneta (1521/80) a student of Perin del Vaga
Two
landscapes by Francesco Albani (1578/1660)
“Madonna
Enthroned with Child” by Bartolomeo Vivarini
(1432/active until 1499)
“Holy family” by Simone Cantarini (1612/48)
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