Palazzo Colonna

The Palazzo Colonna is a noble palace in Piazza SS Apostoli in Rome. He has been 23 generations of the Colonna family, and is partially open to the public. The indoor Galleria Colonna houses an important art collection.

History

Originally on the site of today's palace were several smaller buildings from the Middle Ages, which belonged to the Counts of Tusculum family. 1417 ended with the election of a pope Oddo Colonna di the Western Schism and the popes returned from Avignon finally back. When Martin V. He reigned until 1431 and in that time, work began at the old Palazzo Colonna. Under Cardinal Riario and Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal then, later Pope Julius II, made ​​1470-1490 first extension work. From this time the frescoes by Pinturicchio in the fountain hall have been preserved.

The rather castle-like building of the 15th century it was only with the new wings along the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli and Via della Pilotta in the 17th century, its present appearance. Under Girolamo Colonna I. began in 1650, work on the Galleria Colonna, in order to create a suitable framework for the growing art collection of the family. As of 1666 continued his nephew Lorenzo Onofrio continued this project. First, the architect Antonio Del Grande was awarded the contract for this work before it was replaced in 1693 by Girolamo Fontana, who completed the work on the gallery in 1703.

Galleria Colonna

The Galleria Colonna is one of the most important after the Renaissance in Rome created art collections and is a work of art from paintings, sculptures, furniture, mirrors and room decorations dar. The actual gallery space is dedicated to Marcantonio Colonna II as the winner of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Giovanni Coli and Filippo Gherardi have shown in this space the subject 1675-1678 in a ceiling fresco. In the Hall of the landscapes created twenty years later on the same topic Sebastiano Ricci a ceiling painting and in 1700 originated in battle room with the fresco of the Apotheosis of Marcantonio Colonna II

The collection includes masterpieces from the 15th to 18th centuries. To take in the Palazzo Colonna artists include Lorenzo Monaco, Agnolo Bronzino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Paolo Veronese, Palma il Vecchio, Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto, Pietro da Cortona, Annibale Carracci, Francesco Albani, Guercino, Guido Reni, Carlo Maratta, Gaspard Poussin, Pompeo Batoni and.

Appartamento Principessa Isabelle

These spaces were inhabited until the late 1980s by the Princess Isabelle Colonna Sursock and also since the audience are open to visitors. Here are seen predominantly Dutch painter. In addition to smaller pictures crafted on copper by Jan Brueghel the Elder, there are some works by Gaspar van Wittel and Gaspard Poussin.

Selected pictures

Annibale Carracci: The Bean Eaters

Bronzino: Venus, Cupid and Satyr

Paolo Veronese: Portrait of a nobleman