Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

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The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica ('National Gallery of Ancient Art') is an art museum in Rome, Italy. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. It has two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini. The gallery's collection includes works by Bernini, Caravaggio, van Dyck, Holbein, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Lotto, Preti, Poussin, El Greco, Raphael, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Rubens, Murillo, Ribera and Titian.

The Palazzo Barberini was designed for Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, by the sixteenth-century architect Carlo Maderno on the former location of Villa Sforza. The ceiling of its central salone was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power. The museum expanded through purchases and donations, such as the acquisition of the Torlonia and Monte di Pietà collections in 1892, the donation of Henriette Hertz in 1915, and the purchase of the Chigi collection in 1918.

- Holy Family, c. 1528 Bartolomeo Veneto

- Hagar and the Angel Gian Lorenzo Bernini

- Bust of Pope Clement X Agnolo Bronzino

- Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta to the South

- The Piazzetta with the Biblioteca Marciana

- View of Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Caravaggio

- Saint Francis in Prayer, 1605 El Greco

- Baptism of Christ Pedro Fernández da Murcia

- Vision of Blessed Amedeo Menez da Sylva, c. 1513 Garofalo

- The Vestal Claudia Quinta Towing the Ship with the Statue of Cybele Giulio Romano

- Et in Arcadia ego, 1618–1622 Hans Holbein the Younger

- Portrait of Henry VIII Giovanni Lanfranco

- Annunciation with Two Kneeling Donors, 1440–1445 Lorenzo Lotto

- Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saints, 1524 Quentin Massys

- Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam Pierre-Étienne Monnot

- Model of the Funerary Monument of Pope Innocent XI, c. 1697 Perugino

- Saint Mary Magdalene Pietro da Cortona

- Madonna Advocata and Christ Blessing Nicolas Poussin