BRASCHI PALACE - MUSEUM OF ROME (ninth part)

The Torlonia family

ROOMS 7 AND 8

Works that used to decorate the now destroyed Palazzo Torlonia on Piazza Venezia

Five large charcoal drawings of mythological subjects: “Titanomachy”, “The Rape of Proserpina”, “The Toilette of Venus”, “Judgment of Paris” and “Rape of Europa” about 1837

“Alessandro Torlonia taken to the Temple of Glory” about 1886 all works by Francesco Podesti (1800/95)

Mural painting “Triumph of Hercules” about 1839 by Francesco Coghetti (1801/75)

Mural painting “Trionfo di Venere” about 1836/37 maybe by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/90)

“Antonio Canova shows Giovanni and Anna Maria Torlonia the sketch of Hercules and Lica” about 1811 maybe by Antonio Canova himself

ROOM 9

Twelve lunettes from the destroyed Apollo Theater with “The Months” 1839 by Filippo Bigioli (1798/1898)

Charcoal Drawing preparatory to the fresco of the Villa Torlonia Carolina at Castel Gandolfo “Apollo and the Hours” about 1844 by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/90)

ROOM 10 or ALCOVE ROOM

Incomplete reconstruction of the reception hall that preceded the alcove itself destroyed in the Palazzo Torlonia in Piazza Venezia with paintings “Judgment of Paris” and “Loves of the Gods” 1837 by Filippo Bigioli and stuccos such as “Medallions with stories of Psyche” by Pietro Galli (1804/77), a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen

“Plaster portrait of Anna Maria Torlonia” by Adamo Tadolini (1788/1868)

BRASCHI PALACE - MUSEUM OF ROME (eighth part)

The Rospigliosi family

ROOM 4

Extraordinary “Model of the Chapel Pallavicini Rospigliosi in S. Francesco a Ripa church” about 1712 by Nicola Michetti (about 1675/1758)

“Portraits of child masked” (maybe Pietro Banchieri, son of the nephew of Clement IX Rospigliosi - 1667/69) about 1668 maybe by Pierre Ronche

ROOM 5

“Equestrian Portrait of Camillo Rospigliosi” 1737 by Agostino Masucci (1691/1758)

“The choice of the equestrian portrait, while recalling courtly models of the seventeenth century, from Rubens to Van Dyck, in the exact description of the gait of the horse, its harness and Camillo's special clothing, is a faithful document of the art of riding in this period” (Brief Guide to the Museum of Rome)

Various “Portraits of horses” by Johan Reder (1656/1764)

“View of Palazzo Rospigliosi on Quirinal Hill from the East side” 1755, “Celebrations in Maccarese in honor of St. George on May 1st 1756” about 1756 and “Turkish sailors shipwrecked seized in Maccarese” 1756 by the French Adrien Manglard (1695/1760)

Chinoiserie

ROOM 6

Decoration of the room and clothes influenced by eighteenth-century fashion and passion for Chinese décor

“Automatic Organ with cylinders” about 1820/30 by the Viennese Anton Beyer, an extraordinary grandfather of a jukebox