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The
gallery was founded by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna,
the son of the Contestabile Filippo and Lucrezia
Tomacelli; it was built between 1654 and 1655 as
designed by the architect Antonio Del Grande,
but was completed after his death in 1671 by Girolamo
Fontana and inaugurated by Filippo Colonna
in 1703.
The
collection of art works gathered in the gallery
initiated in the Seventeenth century and later increased
by Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna consists of
sculptures from the Roman age and several
paintings ranging from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth
century.
Among
the various exhibition rooms of the Gallery,
the great hall is particularly noteworthy because together
with the preceding and the following rooms, it forms
a complex which is more than 70 meters long and has
an impressive visual effect.
The fresco
decoration of the vault was done by the Roman artists
Giovanni Paolo Schor, his son Filippo and
Laura Bernasconi,(1665-1670j, while the five paintings
depicting the stories of Marcantonio II are by
Giovanni Colli and Filippo Gherardi (1675-1678)
and they represent: the Battle of Lepanto, the
entrance of Marcantonio II in Rome and
st.Pius V appointing him as commander of his
fleet, the placing of the statue of Marcantonio
in Campidoglio and the Doge of Venice
that gathers his council in order to defeat the Turks.
The walls
of the hall are divided by couples of Corinthian pillars
of ancient yellow marble, which bear friezes
of golden stucco representing trophies and panoplies.
The
large Venetian mirrors a re decorated with figures
of cherubs created by Maratta and with flowers
by Mario de' Fiori.
Some
gilded console tables and ancient statues are
located in the hall, which is illuminated by
large Murano chandeliers.
Some
painting sin the gallery deserve special mention,
such as: The eater of beans by Annibale Carracci,
the Portrait of the Cardinal Pompeo Colonna by
Agostino Carracci, another Portrait of the
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna by Lorenzo Lotto,
a Portrait of Onofrio Panvinio by Titian,
Cain and Abel by Pier Francesco Mala,
the Annunciation with the Archangel Gabriel by
Guercino, the Assumption of the Virgin
by Rubens and two paintings by Salvator
Rosa representing a Self-portrait of the artist
in the semblance of St.John the Baptist and a
sermon of the Baptist.
Information
and Addresses
Address
Via della Pilotta, 17
Visiting
Hours Saturday from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm Closed
August
Telephone
06 678435°; Fax 06 6794638
Price
€ 7,00; concessions € 5,50
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