“The room
(...) owes its name to the fact that it has been used as a bedroom by Queen
Christina of Sweden until her death. Following the purchase of the building by
the Corsini family, the room remained the bedroom of the new owner, Cardinal
Neri Maria. Underscoring the link between the room and the Queen, the Swedish
State gave the Gallery (1991) a painting that depicts her in the guise of Diana
the huntress, the work of the Flemish Justus van Egmont and six commemorative
medals” (Official Website of the Galleria Corsini -
galleriacorsini.beniculturali.it)
Decorations
in the ceiling with “Stories of Solomon” and “Stories of Moses” maybe by artists
of the school of Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609)
“Terracotta bust of G.B. Blanchis” 1680 by Fabrizio
Arriguzzi (active 1630/80)
Small
bronze statue “Ganymede and the Eagle” by the Florentine Antonio Montauti (1685/1740)
Outstanding
portraits “Christ Crowned with Thorns”, “Our Lady of Sorrows” and “St. John the Evangelist” by Guido
Reni (1575/1642)
“Queen Christina of Sweden as Diana” by Justus
Van Egmonts (1601/74)
“Meeting of Rebekah and Eliazar at the source” by Carlo
Maratta (1625/1713
“It is a
masterpiece of the maturity of Carlo Maratta and stands as an exemplum of
academic eclecticism of the artist” (Official Website of the Galleria Corsini -
galleriacorsini.beniculturali.it)
“St. Sebastian Tended by Angels” by Peter
Paul Rubens (1577/1640)
“It belonged
to the collection of Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini senior and it dates back to
the early years of the artist's stay in Rome (1601/02)” (Official Website of
the Galleria Corsini - galleriacorsini.beniculturali.it)
“St. Sebastian” by an anonymous
artist of the seventeenth century inspired by Palma il Giovane
“Madonna and Child” by Angelo
Caroselli (1585/1652)
“Hunting coots” and “Hunters in the woods” by Angeluccio
(active mid-seventeenth century) who painted the landscapes whereas the figures
were probably painted by the Roman bambocciante Michelangelo
Cerquozzi (1602/60)
“The
attribution of the figures to the Roman painter raises some doubts indeed
because of their street fighting and thugs attitude that would seem more
appropriate to Pieter Van Laer” (Sivigliano Alloisi)
“St.
Apollonia” by Carlo Dolci (1616/86)
Two
paintings made with oil on copper and blackboard: “Interior of Antwerp Cathedral
during the day” and
“Interior of Antwerp Cathedral at
night” by Frans Francken III (1606/after 1667) with Peter Neefs the Younger (1620/post 1675)
“Justice” by Cesare Gennari
(1637/88)
“Ecstasy of St. Francis” by Filippo
Lauri (1623/94)
“Temple of Vesta with Roman monuments” and “Pantheon and Roman monuments” by the French Charles Louis Clerisseau (1721/1820)
“Clerisseau
was also an architect and an elegant draftsman. Following a period of travel to
follow the English architect Robert Adam, he returned to Rome in the early
sixties and it was well received for his friendship with Piranesi. Here he
undertook the decoration of the coffee house in Villa Albani where he met
Winckelmann and a little later he made the famous room of the convent of
Trinità dei Monti, which immediately became one of the curiosities of Rome”
(Sivigliano Alloisi)
“Holy Family”, also known as “Our Lady of Silence”
by Marcello Venusti (about 1512/79)
“The Assumption of Mary Magdalene” copy by an unknown
seventeenth-century artist from an original by Giovanni Lanfranco
“The Holy Family with John the
Baptist and Mary Magdalene” copy by an unknown sixteenth-century artist from
an original by Parmigianino
“Landscape with waterfall and
figures” by Pandolfo Reschi (1643/99)
“Concert” by the Flemish artist Theodor
Rombouts (1597/1637)
“The Holy Family with St. John” by the Emilian Bartolomeo Schedoni (1578/1611)
“The
comprehensive training of Schedoni led, in contact with the painting of
Ludovico Carracci and Giovanni Lanfranco (in Parma since 1610), to a very
personal style, where the direct and contrasted light isolates and highlights
the solid and almost geometrically constructed forms and emphasizes the vivid
and brilliant colors” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
“Adoration of the Shepherds” by an artist
of the school of Jacopo Bassano
“Deposition of Christ from the Cross” by a sixteenth
century artist of the Tuscan school
“Portrait of Vittoria Della Rovere as Faith” by the Flemish artist Giusto Sustermans (1597/1681)
“Landscape with Satyrs” by Pietro
Testa (1612/50) engraver from Lucca who sadly committed suicide in the
Tiber for his disappointments in his job as a painter
“Fruit Seller” by Jacob
Van Steverden
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