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Opening times
From Monday to Sunday 8.30 to 19.30 (last entrance 19.00)
Closed on Tuesdays, 25 December
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€ 6.00 full
€ 2.00 reduced (from 18 to 25 years)
Free for
- all visitors under 18 years;
- People with disabilities and a family member or another companion who proves his/ her membership in social and health assistance services;
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Every 1st Sunday of the month free admission
Please note: On free admission days (1st Sunday of the month and other free admission days) neither bookings nor groups are accepted; on such occasions, please note that you may have to wait for admission due to the museum's security restrictions.
Groups
NOT admitted on Saturdays and Sundays.
Reservation compulsory during the week for groups of max 12 people + 1 guide by email to: palazzospada@gebart.it or by telephone on 06 6832409.
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Description
Capodiferro (1502-1559), who assigned its construction in 1548 to the architect Bartolomeo Baronino.
The rich decorations on the facade and the stuccoes in the courtyard were realized by Giulio Mazzoni.
In 1632 the Palace was purchased by cardinal Bernardino Spada (1594-1661), who made it his residence calling painters, sculptors, and architects to restore it. Francesco Borromini himself realized in 1652-53 the particular Perspective Gallery in cooperation with themathematician Father Giovanni Maria from Bitonto that through the optical illusion created by the ascending floor, the converging walls and the descending vault simulates a much longer depth than the actual 9 meters. Cardinal Bernardino, being a passionate collector, set up his collection of paintings, which was increased later through the contribution of his nephews, in four halls in the left wing of the Palace.
The Palace and the Gallery were purchased by the State in 1936 after alternate events that caused the dispersion of a large number of paintings, to house the Council of State. Currently the collection of the Gallery, largely consisting of cardinal Bernardino’s collection, presents a rich set of paintings, pieces of furniture, antique and modern sculptures, including two seventeenth century maps of the world and of the heavens by the Dutchman W. Blaeu. The most significant paintings include the works by Guido Reni (Portrait of cardinal Bernardino Spada, and St. Jerome), Guercino (Death of Dido, and Portrait of cardinal Bernardino Spada),Titian (Portrait of musician), Mattia Preti (Christ tempted by Satan, Christ and the adulteress), Brueghel the Elder (Landscape with windmills), Cerquozzi (The revolt of Masaniello). The variety of the selected iconographic subjects, that go from religious to mythological scenes, from portraits to still lives, as well as the differences between the pictorial schools represented, constitute an important example of the taste of collectors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Educational activities
Guided tours with art historians
Info and booking
phone: 06 6832409
e-mail: didattica@gebart.it