COLONNA PALACE - COLONNA GALLERY (eighth part)

Cabinet near the Yellow Room

Beautifully frescoed walls with “Landscapes and putti with banners” about 1756 maybe by Giovanni Angeloni (1740/88) and the Pozzi brothers

Room of Embroidery

“Gentlewoman with violin” by Domenico Puligo (1492/1527)

“In the portraits by Puligo there is the tendency of creating types. (...) They have that certain pose that corresponds to the convention of the time and therefore, for the specialized portraitist, it seemed the main thing” (Hermann Voss)

Tapestry Room

Large tapestry woven by the manufactures of Faubourg Saint-Marcel

“Adoration of the Magi” by the Master of the Legend of St. Barbara

This is the central panel of a triptych whose doors are kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. This artist was active in Belgium in the late fifteenth century

Interesting in this painting a representation of S. Joseph on the left while making a mousetrap, symbolism derived from St. Augustine and common in the northern European sacred iconography that describes the Cross as a trap for the devil

Two small but important paintings: “Madonna and Child” and “Virgin of the Annunciation” by the phantasmagoric Cosmè Tura (about 1433/95)

“Deposition” and “Massacre of the Innocents” by Jacopo del Sellaio (1442/93)

“St. Augustine” and “Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and an angel” by Carlo Crivelli (about 1435/94)

COLONNA PALACE - APARTMENT OF PRINCESS ISABELLE (second part)

APPARTAMENTO DELLA PRINCIPESSA ISABELLE

ENTRANCE HALL

“Four views of the Villa di Capodimonte in Naples” 1840 by Annibale Angelini (1812/84)

ROOM OF THE CANOPY

St. Charles Borromeo lived here in the 60s of the sixteenth century

Family portraits including “Felice Orsini” by Scipione Pulzone (about 1550/98)

VANVITELLI ROOM

“Roman Landscapes” by Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736)

PINK ROOM

Canvas “Landscape with Judgement of Paris” by Carlo Maratta (1625/1713) and Gaspard Dughet (1615/75)

Nine small works by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568/1625)

“Self Portrait” 1558 by Sofonisba Anguissola (about 1531/1626) a great Italian portraitist who lived almost 100 years

“Through the eclectic education of Bernardino Campi, Anguissola soberly felt the influence of the school of Raphael and Parmigianino, through Bernardino Gatti the art of Correggio. He painted mainly portraits of solid workmanship and considerable spontaneity (...), absorbing the preponderant influence of the Venetians, not separated from resonances of the greatest masters from Emilia and from Spain” (Enciclopedia Treccani)

ROOM OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM

Fresco to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini “Fame, Flora, Gloria and Cupid” by Giacinto Gimignani (1606/81), Carlo Cesi and others

ROOM OF THE FOUNTAIN

Ceiling “old style” by Bernardino di Betto aka Pinturicchio (1454/1513)

“Sts. Maurilio and Paul with the Abbot Nicholas Roverella” about 1474 by Cosmè Tura

“Tura studied in Padua with Squarcione: his special reaction to the new Florentine art comes from there. He meditated Donatello and Mantegna known before importing in Ferrara his relentless curiosity. A peculiar care in the contours, in the narrow folds, the unreality of the colors that are a kind of challenge, the predilection for motives carefully analyzed and redundant, shells, garlands, dragons, crystal spirals similar to steel shavings, and of course armors. All elements, in short, of an imaginative and, so to speak, heraldic antiquity” (André Chastel)

Ancient “Statue of crocodile” third century AD

ROOM OF THE STORM

“Landscapes with storm” 1667/68 by Pieter Mulier aka Tempesta (1637/1701)

DUGHET ROOM

Ceiling by Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)

On the walls beautiful tromp l'oeil frescoes by Gaspard Dughet (1615/75)

DINING ROOM

Frescoes on vault and lunettes by the same artists who decorated the Vatican Library under the direction of Giovanni Guerra (1544/1618) and Cesare Nebbia (1536/1614)

ROOM OF THE MASK

“Roman Floor” IV sec. AD from Bovillae