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General Info

The Corsini Gallery, housed in a structure bearing the same name placed at

the Lungara, is the only example of a Roman picture gallery of the
XVIII century which is still intact to our days. It was Cardinal Neri
Maria Corsini (nephew of Pope Clement XII) who had the construction built

between 1732 and 1736. The previous century it had been the home of
Queen Christina of Sweden and the seat of the Arcadian Academy
founded by the queen.

Preferred artists of the Cardinal were Rubens, van Dyck, Murillo,
Caravaggio, Guercino, Gentileschi, Reni and many others. This way the
Gallery became the centre of the paintings from the XVII and XVIII
centuries in Rome and Naples, without disregarding foreign works
(especially Dutch). The Italian State received the collection as a

donation in 1883 together with the building and part of the
furnishings. In some rooms we can find small bronzes (most of them
from late XVII and early XVIII century).

Among the masterpieces exhibited in the gallery we can admire also
Beato Angelico's and Andrea del Sarto's paintings. On display also the
Trono Corsini (inspired by Etruscan funeral thrones dating the late
Republican Age) and the Coppa Corsini (a silver kantharos of the
first century B.C.).
NB: free admittance for under 18 and over 65 years old - Closed on Mondays,

Christmas day and January the 1st