It was
built on the ruins of the Baths
of Constantine which were completely destroyed in the process of
building this palace
Among the statues found here:
Two “Dioscuri, Castor and
Pollux” in Piazza del Quirinale
Two “Colossal
river gods: the Tiber and the Nile”. Originally the Tiber represented the
Tigris and it was later transformed with the addition of twins
Both the
Dioscuri and the river gods probably originally decorated the nearby Temple of Serapis
Statue of “Constantine
II” and “Costantius” transferred to Piazza
del Campidoglio
“Statue of
Constantine” moved to the atrium of the Basilica
of St. John Lateran
The
building was begun in 1605 by Flaminio Ponzio
(1560/1613) for Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577/1633)
It was completed
in the years 1613/16 by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629)
It belonged
to the Altemps family, to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, to the Mancini family and it
was bought in 1704 by the Pallavicini Rospigliosi who are still the owners
GROUND FLOOR
Frescoes by Giovanni Mannozzi aka Giovanni
da S. Giovanni (1592/1636)
LOGGIA
Frescoes by Guido Reni
(1575/1642) and Paul Brill (1554/1626)
SECOND FLOOR
Decorations with historical subjects by Giovanni Mannozzi
aka Giovanni da S. Giovanni
Pallavicini
Little House
SMALL
LOGGIA WITH THREE ROOMS
In the ceiling of the central room:
“Aurora” 1614 by Guido
Reni
“Guido, in
his great fresco, took a subject which has long been a favorite, and
illuminated it by the fire of his genius. So happily has he done this, so
deeply has he touched men by his work, that The Aurora stands as one of that
line of twelve pictures that most move and delight the world” (Jennie Ellis
Keysor)
On the
entrance lunette “Triumph of Love and Fame” by Antonio
Tempesta (about 1555/1630)
On the
walls “Four Seasons” about 1605 by Paul Brill
(1554/1626)
“After 1600
Paul Brill was more and more under the influence of the Carraccis. The style of
his landscapes essentially becomes easier and calmer, without detracting from
the pleasant objectivity of the representations. The Four Seasons are a
masterpiece with their clear perspective, the excellent rendition of their
foliage and their beautiful patterns. They compare to the Seasons of Matteo da
Siena in the Sala Ducale as the fulfillment to the promise” (Hermann Voss)
In the other two rooms:
“Rinaldo and Armida” by Giovanni
Baglione (1566/1643) and “Combat of Armida” by Domenico Crespi aka Passignano (1559/1638)
Behind the
Palace of the Gallery NYMPHAEUM called “The Theatre” 1611 maybe by Jan Van
Santen aka Giovanni Vasanzio (1550/1621) with
statues of Rivers “Po” and “Tiber” by Taddeo Landini
(about 1550/96)
LOGGIA OF
THE MUSES also called LOGGIA OF MONTECAVALLO
Paintings by Orazio Lomi aka Orazio Gentileschi (1563/1639) with quadrature
perspectives by Agostino Tassi (1578/1644)
A third
building (there were three stepped terraces) was destroyed for the opening of
Via Nazionale and the frescoes by Ludovico Cardi aka Cigoli were moved to the Museo di Roma in Palazzo
Braschi
Pallavicini
Gallery
(Unfortunately
it is not open to the public)
It is one
of the most important art collections in Rome with about 540 paintings, begun
by Lazzaro Pallavicini
It would be
fabulous if the Pallavicini family would open to the public their incredible
private collection as other families in Rome such as the Doria Pamphilj or the
Colonna beautifully do
Some of the painters of the works in the
collection:
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino
(1591/1666), Federico Fiori aka Barocci
(1535/1612), Jacopo Da Ponte aka Jacopo Bassano
(about 1510/92), Pietro Berrettini akaPietro da Cortona
(1597/1669), three by Sandro Filipepi aka Botticelli
(1445/1510), Paul Brill (1554/1626), Annibale Carracci (1560/1609), Ludovico Carracci (1555/1619), Antonio
Circignani aka Pomarancio (about 1568/1629), Sebastiano
Conca (1680/1764), Antoon Van Dyck (1599/1641),
Luigi Garzi (1638/1721), G.B. Gaulli aka Baciccio (1639/1709), Giacinto
Gimignani (1606/81), Luca Giordano (1634/1705), Filippino
Lippi (about 1457/1504), Lorenzo Lotto
(about 1480/1556), Carlo Maratta (1625/1713),
Jacopo Negretti aka Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544/1628), Nicolas Poussin
(1594/1665), Guido Reni (1575/1642), Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626), two by
Pieter Paul Rubens (1577/1640), Francesco de'
Rossi aka Francesco Salviati (1510/63), Luca Signorelli (1445/1523), Francesco
Solimena (1657/1747), Antonio Tempesta (about 1555/1630), Jacopo Robusti aka Tintoretto (1518/94), Francesco
Trevisani (1656/1746), Diego Rodriguez de Silva
y Velásquez (1599/1660), Domenico
Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641)
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