In the palace there are:
261 tapestries,
Italian, Flemish and French, one of the most important collections in the world
About
38,000 pieces of porcelain
About 300
pre-1800s paintings including works by:
Giulio Pippi aka Giulio Romano (1499/1546),
Simon Vouet (1590/1649), Francesco Mancini (1679/1758), G.B. Gaulli
aka Baciccio (1639/1709), Jacques Courtois aka
Borgognone (1628/79), Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647),
Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669),
Carlo Maratta (1625/1713) and Pompeo Batoni (1708/87)
About 1900
paintings, drawings and sculptures from the 1800s and 1900s including:
Sculpture “Sad Peri” 1870 by Odoardo
Tabacchi (1831/1905) and works by Giovanni Maria
Benzoni (1799/1873), Giacomo Balla
(1871/1958), Arturo Martini (1889/1947), Mino Maccari (1898/1989), Mario
Sironi (1885/1961), Mario Mafai
(1902/65), Giacomo Manzù (1908/91), Fausto Pirandello (1899/1975),
Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900/72), Alberto Ziveri (1908/90), Felice Casorati
(1883/1963) and Francesco Trombadori (1886/1961)
Porch with
left wing 1589 by Domenico Fontana and right
wing 1605/09 by Flaminio Ponzio
Clock with
six hours in the Roman way with mosaic 1696 by Giuseppe
Conti from a Carlo Maratta painting now
in the storage of the Vatican Museums
STAIRCASE
OF HONOR
Fragment of
fresco “Christ in Glory” from the apse of the Basilica of the Holy Apostles
by Melozzo degli Ambrosi aka Melozzo da Forlì
(1438/94)
Designed by
Carlo Maderno
Large
frieze “Ambassadors from all
over the world” and round panels “Stories of Moses” 1616/17 by Agostino
Tassi (1578/1644), Giovanni Lanfranco
(1582/1647) and Carlo Saraceni (1579/1620) with
the collaboration of Alessandro Turchi aka Orbetto
(1578/1649), Giovanni Antonio Galli aka Spadarino
(1585/about 1653) and Fra' Paolo Novelli with
the painted cornice recovered during the 2006 restoration
“The
decorative frame of the frieze designed by Tassi in its abundant organization
on the short walls reveals his Florentine late mannerist education, whilst the
prospects that are opening in imaginary rooms on the long walls show that he
was influenced by the illusionism of northern Italy. It is not easy to
establish as Lanfranco and Saraceni had divided the work of figures and scenes:
we are confronted with an entente cordiale (friendly understanding) between a
pupil of Carracci and a follower of Caravaggio under the direction of a Roman
who had studied in Florence. One can add that rarely a Caravaggio follower was
considered able to carry out jobs for public frescoes of this kind” (Rudolf
Wittkower)
Large lunette relief brought here from the Gregorian Chapel of the
Basilica of St. Peter in 1619 with “Washing of the Feet” 1578 by Taddeo
Landini (about 1550/96)
“Angels”
over the lunette on the left by Guillaume Berthelot
(about 1570/1648) and on the right by Pietro Bernini
(1562/1629)
French
tapestries “Cupid and Psyche” and “Don Quixote” of the eighteen century
“Coat of
arms of Italian cities” about 1880 by Gaetano Lodi
In the
splays of the windows “Grotesque” by Annibale Duranti
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