Doria Pamphilj Gallery

Coordinates: 41°53′52″N 12°28′52″E / 41.897669°N 12.481145°E / 41.897669; 12.481145
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Doria Pamphilj Gallery
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj façade on Via del Corso; on the right is Santa Maria in Via Lata.
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Established1651 (1651)
LocationVia del Corso 305, 00186 Rome, Italy
Coordinates41°53′52″N 12°28′52″E / 41.897669°N 12.481145°E / 41.897669; 12.481145
TypeArt museum, Historic site
Websitewww.doriapamphilj.it/en/

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery (often Doria Pamphili Gallery in English) is a large private art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in

Doria Pamphili
. Tours of the state rooms often culminate in concerts of Baroque and Renaissance music, paying tribute to the setting and the masterpieces it contains.

Collection

The courtyard. The first floor shuttered windows correspond to a four-sided gallery, housing the collection's main paintings.
Interior

The large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary has been assembled since the 16th century by the

Camillo Pamphilj
.

The Palazzo has grown over the centuries; it is likely the largest in Rome still in private ownership. The main collection is displayed in

medieval and Byzantine art
in the collection.

The palace was renovated for the marriage of Andrea IV Doria Pamphilj Landi to

Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg
in 1767. Work was carried out under the supervision of Francesco Nicoletti, an architect from Trapani.

Holy Year was commissioned by his hedonistic sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini who was his close confidante and adviser, and some say mistress. Since 1927, Velázquez's portrait was placed in a specially designated small room along with a sculptured bust of the same pope by Bernini
.

Olimpia Maidalchini's son

Benedetto
.

One of Camillo and Olimpia's daughters, Anna Pamphilj, married the Genoese aristocrat Giovanni Andrea III Doria Landi in 1671, and it was their descendants who inherited the Palazzo when the Roman branch of the Pamphilj family ended in 1760. In 1763 Prince Andrea IV combined his Genoese and Roman names to the present Doria-Pamphilj-Landi. In 1767 the ceilings of the state rooms were frescoed by late-baroque artists such as Crescenzio Onofri, Aureliano Milani, and Stefano Pozzi (Sala degli Specchi).

The collection was first opened to the

Frank Pogson added her name to his. Her own father, Prince Filippo Andrea VI, was half English. Princess Orietta and Commander Frank did much to restore the collection and the Palazzo; following her death in 2000 the guardianship of the collection was taken over by her adopted, English-born children, Jonathan Doria Pamphilj and Gesine Pogson Doria Pamphilj, who still live in the palazzo. Along with the possessions of the Colonna and Pallavicini-Rospigliosi
families, this is one of the largest private art collections in Rome.

Overview

Main painting galleries:

Room of Andrea Doria: Portrait of Christopher Columbus by

Portrait of Andrea Doria
. Green Salon: large mid-15th century Tournai tapestry with the medieval legend of Alexander the Great; bronze of Innocent X by Algardi; Portrait by Lotto; and Filippo Lippi's Annunciation.

Note: The Palazzo housing the Gallery Doria Pamphilj should not be confused with the Palazzo Pamphilj, in Rome's Piazza Navona, now the Brazilian Embassy. Nor should this palace be confused with a second Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj, a summer urban villa, in Valmontone near Rome; this palace, while badly damaged during the Second World War, is renowned for its late Baroque fresco series by Francesco Cozza, Pier Francesco Mola, and Mattia Preti.[1]

Collection highlights

References

  1. ^ "Valmontone - Palazzo Doria Pamphilj". Archived from the original on 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2006-11-15.

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Preceded by
Casa di Goethe
Landmarks of Rome
Doria Pamphilj Gallery
Succeeded by
Galleria Borghese