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Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica - Galleria Corsini

Typology: Art Museum, State Museum

Address

Address: Via della Lungara, 10

Zone: Rione Trastevere (Gianicolo) (Roma centro)

Contacts

Telephone: +39 06 68802323

Fax: +39 06 68133192

Web site: www.barberinicorsini.org

Email: gan-aar@beniculturali.it - info@barberinicorsini.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BarberiniCorsini/

Hashtag: #BarberiniCorsini

Instagram: www.instagram.com/barberinicorsini/

Online purchase: https://www.gebart.it/musei/gallerie-nazionali-barberini-corsini-galleria-corsini/

Telephone booking: +39 06 32810

Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarberiniCorsin

Opening times

On Monday; Wednesday- Sunday: 8.30pm - 7.00pm (last admission at 6.30pm)
Closed on Tuesday 25 December and 1st January

Information

Full Ticket Palazzo Barberini + Corsini Galleries: € 12 valid for 10 days
Reduced Ticket Palazzo Barberini + Corsini Galleries: € 2 valid for 10 days

Concessions:
- UE members between 18 and 25 years old

Free ticket
- European and non-European people under 18
- tour guides from the European Union practising their professional activity;
- tour interpreters from the European Union practising their professional activity;
- employees of the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities ;
- members of ICOM (International Council of Museums);
- members of ICCROM (International organization for conservation of cultural heritage);
- reserved school groups from European Union schools, accompanied by one teacher every 10 students;
- teachers and students of faculties of Architecture, Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, Education Sciences, and degree courses in the Arts, or in literary subjects with a specialisation in archaeology or art history, in Humanities faculties of Universities from the European Union;
- students enrolled in these specialisations of faculties of Architecture, Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, Education Sciences, and of degree courses in the Arts, or in literary subjects with a - specialisation in archaeology or art history, in Humanities faculties of Universities and doctorate students in the aforementioned disciplines;
- Socrates and Erasmus students of the aforementioned disciplines;
- teachers and students of Fine Arts Academies from the European Union;
- teachers of Art History in Upper Secondary Schools;
- students of the following schools: Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Scuola per il Restauro del Mosaico;
- journalists in the italian national register or any other journalist from a foreign country, only for work porpouses and according to a valid document proving the given professionalism;
- disabled persons and a companion;
- members of volunteer work associations of the Cultural Heritage;

Booking: Tel. +39 0632810 - Fax +39 063251329
Booking Fee: € 1,00.

Free admission
7 April
25 April
2 May
6 June
29 June
4 July
1 August
5 September
6 October
3 November
1 December

Agreement with

Roma Pass

Today's events

#IoVadoAlMuseo (Manifestations) from 2019-02-28

Scheduled events

Visite animate Storie di nature morte (Guided tours and educational visits) from 2019-11-16 to 2020-02-01

Current manifestations

L’enigma del reale. Ritratti e nature morte dalla Collezione Poletti e dalle Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini (Exhibitions) from 2019-10-24 to 2020-02-02

Description

After cardinal Lorenzo Corsini was elected pope with the name of Clement the Twelfth (1730-1740), his family moved from Florence to Rome, purchasing the sixteenth century Palazzo Riario, former residence of the Queen Christine of Sweden that housed the Accademia of the Arcadia at the foot of the Janiculum. The building was restructured and enlarged between 1732 and 1736 by the Florentine architect Ferdinando Fuga. By will of cardinal Neri, nephew of the Pope, the library was the most important of its time in Rome after the Vatican Library and part of the family’s works of art were transferred to the new wings of the Palace. When the Corsini family moved back to Florence in 1883, the Palace was sold to the State including the collections that were also donated. The Corsini collection that constitutes one of the funds of the National Gallery of Ancient Art, is the only Roman eighteenth century collection of marbles, statues, and paintings that was conserved intact. Its pieces testify the classic and anti-baroque trends of the first half of the eighteenth century. The collection consists of sculptures of the Roman Age, neoclassic statues, small eighteenth century bronzes and furniture, paintings by seventeenth-eighteenth century authors from the Roman, Neapolitan, and Bolognese schools with important groups of landscape painters. The best known authors include Frà Angelico (Last Judgement), P.P. Rubens (St. Sebastian cured by the Angels), Guido Reni (Salome with the head of the Baptist), Guercino (Ecce Homo), Caravaggio (St. John the Baptist), Annibale Carracci, Mattia Preti. In addition to the Gallery the Palace also houses the prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, institution founded in 1603.

Services

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