ROOM 11
“Portraits of
Giuseppe Massani and his wife Elena Battistini” 1825/30 by an unknown nineteenth-century artist
“Graphite
and pastel portrait of Giovanna Massani” about 1840 by Filippo
Agricola (1795/1857)
“Bust of Maria Massani” about 1838 maybe by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)
Three paintings representing the Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio
1879, 1884 and 1886 by Francesco Gai (1835/1917)
“Self-Portrait” 1916 by Francesco
Gai
Prints
and Photographs
ROOM 12
The
photographic portrait
Collection
of photos and nineteenth-century clothing
MUNICIPAL
ARCHIVE OF PICTURES
MUNICIPAL
CABINET OF PRINTS
G.B.
Piranesi (1720/78), Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781/1835) and his son Achille Pinelli (1809/41) also the author of about 200
watercolors kept in the storage of museum representing façades of churches and
Roman painted in the years 1826/35
Gipsoteca
Pietro Tenerani (1798/1869)
Received as
a donation to the museum in 1940
Collection
of models and plaster models of busts, reliefs, statues full-length and
monumental groups
“It
illustrates almost all the production of the sculptor, a pupil of Bertel
Thorvaldsen, participating in the climate of figurative renewal in the early
decades of the century, based on the recovery of formal simplicity and ethical
values of the primitive painting and Raphael, which will be encoded in the
theoretical program of the Manifesto of Purism of 1842” (Brief Guide to the
Museum of Rome)
Other
Works in the Museum Storage
About 2,000
ceramics, about 1,000 books, about 600 pieces of antique
furniture and about 1400 fragments from demolished Roman buildings
including “Three fragments of mosaic” from the ancient Basilica of St.
Peter
Tapestries
and fabrics,
including the “Six tapestry series of the Seasons with children gardeners” by
the Gobelin manufactory from cartoons by Charles Le
Brun (1619/90) the decorator of Versailles
Sheets
of architects such
as Filippo Juvarra (1678/1736), Nicola Salvi (1697/1751) and Luigi
Vanvitelli (1700/73)
Terra cotta models including:
Several
by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680), including
one for the statue of “St. Longinus” in St. Peter
Models by Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654) and Melchiorre Caffà (1636/67)
A model by Camillo Rusconi (1658/1728) for the statue of Gregory
XIII Boncompagni (1572/85)
A model by Filippo Della Valle (1698/1768) for a monument to
Clement XII Corsini (1730/40)
A model for
the bust of St. Charles Borromeo by Ercole Ferrata
(1610/86)
Hundreds of paintings including:
“Orsini
Family” by Marco Benefial (1684/1764)
“Crucifixion” 1671/72 maybe by Guillaume
Courtois aka Borgognone (1628/79), the painting that Bernini wanted in
front of him on his deathbed
It was in
the Bernini family until 1986 when he entered the collections of the museum
“Both of the
first biographers of Gian Lorenzo Bernini give news of the commission of a
painting inspired by the design of the 'Blood of Christ', a work created by the
artist meditation on the mystical vision that the newly canonized Maria
Maddalena de' Pazzi had in 1585. Baldinucci writes that 'He wanted this pious meditation
being even painted for him on a large canvas, which he always wanted to keep in
the face of his bed in life and in death'“ (Gaia Bindi)
“Deposition”
by Vincenzo Camuccini 1833 (1771/1844)
“Pius IX walking
around the Garden of Pincio Hill” about 1864 by Pio Joris (1843/1921)
In the
collection of the museum there are also paintings by
Joshua Reynolds (1723/92), Girolamo Siciolante
da Sermoneta (1521/80), Polidoro Caldara aka Polidoro
da Caravaggio (about 1495/1543), Vincenzo
Pacetti (1746/1820) and Francesco Trevisani
(1656/1746)
