The room was so named for the late eighteenth-century Genoese wallpaper
“Hagar and
the Angel” recently attributed to the unknown Genoese Pasquale
Chiesa (active in Rome about 1562) who also worked on the “Sacrifice of
Isaac”
“Hagar and
the Angel” by Mattia Preti (1613/99)
“Painting,
sculpture and architecture” 1713 by Marco Benefial
(1684/1764)
“Cain and
Abel” by Niccolò Tornioli (1598/1651) from Siena
Busts of “Innocent
X” and “Benedetto Pamphilj” (or perhaps Pamphiljo?) by Alessandro
Algardi (1598/1654)
Ballroom
and Small Ballroom
Completely
redecorated in 1903
In the
small ballroom: “The tribute of money” by Mattia Preti
(1613/99)
Chapel
1689/91 Carlo Fontana (1634/1714) and modified by Francesco Nicoletti (?/1776) in the second half of
1700s and by Andrea Busiri Vici (1818/1911) in
mid-1800s
Ceiling “Coronation
of the Virgin Mary” by Tommaso Minardi
(1787/1871)
Bodies
of two saints: the
Roman martyr S. Giusto, traditionally called the Centurion, and S. Teodora
“Ivory
Crucifix” by Ercole Ferrata (1610/86)
ROOM G
(Bookshop)
“Landscape
with deer hunting” and “Landscape with hare hunting” by Paul Brill (1554/1626)
Private
Apartment
SMALL ROOM OF
MIRRORS
Designed by
Francesco Nicoletti (?/1776)
It was the
toilet room of Leopoldina of Savoy, wife of Prince Andrea IV in 1767
Ceiling and
panels above the doors painted by the Roman Stefano
Pozzi (1699/1768)
RED ROOM
It was the
old bedroom
Ceiling “Jacob's
Dream” by Pietro Angeletti (about 1737/98)
In the
middle “Cradle” in carved and gilded wood
YELLOW ROOM
“Tapestry”
about 1795 by the Gobelins factories with
allegories of the zodiac signs
Ceiling “Rebecca
at the Well” by Gioacchino Agricola (known
1758/85)
GREEN ROOM
Ceiling “David
and Abigail” by Domenico Corvi (1721/1803) from
Viterbo
“View of
St. Mark's Square in Venice” by Josef Heintz the
Younger (about 1600/78)
BLUE ROOM
Family
portraits of the nineteenth century by Antonio Capalti
Ceiling “Hagar
and the Angel” by Pietro Angeletti (about
1737/98)
THRONE ROOM
Twenty-three
paintings of “Landscapes” by Crescenzio Onofri (1632/1712)
Ceiling
“Sacrifice of Iphigenia” by Gioacchino Agricola
(known 1758/85)
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