The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 palace in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, erected for the Corsini

Corsini

Corsini is the name of a Florentine princely family.-History:The founder is said to be Neri Corsini, who came to prominence circa 1170. The family are likely to have originated from Corsica, during the time when the Republic of Pisa was ruling the island. Initially the family was known as Corso ...

 family between 1730-1740 as an elaboration of the prior building on the site, a 15th-century villa of the Riario

Riario

Riario was an Italian noble family from Genoa. Its member included three famous nephews of Francesco della Rovere, who reigned as Pope Sixtus IV.-Members:*Girolamo Riario , Lord of Imola and Forlì...

 family, based on designs of Ferdinando Fuga

Ferdinando Fuga

Ferdinando Fuga was an Italian architect, whose main works were realized in Rome and Naples in the Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Florence, he began to work in that city as a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini. In 1717 he moved to Rome, to continue his apprentice studies...

. It is located in the Trastevere

Trastevere

Trastevere is rione XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally "beyond the Tiber". The correct pronunciation is "tras-TEH-ve-ray", with the accent on the second syllable. Its logo is a golden head of a lion on a...

 section of the city, and stands beside the Villa Farnesina

Villa Farnesina

The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy.The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante,...

. During 1659-1689, the former Riario palace had hosted the eccentric Christina, Queen of Sweden, who abdicated, converted, and moved to Rome. Under her patronage, this was the site for the first meetings of the Roman Accademia dell'Arcadia. In 1736, the Florentine cardinal Neri Corsini, nephew of Clement XII (formerly Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini), acquired the villa and land, and commissioned the structure now standing. During the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, the palace hosted Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain...

.

Today, the palace hosts some offices of the National Academy of Science (Accademia dei Lincei

Accademia dei Lincei

The Accademia dei Lincei, , is an Italian science academy, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy....

)http://www.lincei.it/informazioni/visita/corsini.php?lg=e and the Galleria Corsini. The gardens, which rise up the Janiculum hill, are part of the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", a botanical garden

Botanical garden

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. This also, is not the sole Palazzo Corsini in Italy; there are a handful of palaces belonging to various lines of this Florentine family, which acquired and built this Roman palace, sometime referred to as Palazzo Corsini Lungarno only upon the ascension of their family member to the papacy. Another Corsini palace of note include the Palazzo Corsini al Parione, facing the banks of the Arno in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

.

Galleria Corsini

The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Corsini or National Gallery of Antique Art in the Corsini Palace is a prominent art museum comprising the first floor of the palace. The national Arte Antica collections (typically post-year 1000 A.D.) in Rome consist of a number of sites, including Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo Barberini is a palace in Rome, facing the piazza of the same name in Rione Trevi and is home to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.-History:...

, Galleria Borghese

Galleria Borghese

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, and the Palazzo Corsini.

The majority of the major works in the Corsini Gallery collection were donated by the Corsini

Corsini

Corsini is the name of a Florentine princely family.-History:The founder is said to be Neri Corsini, who came to prominence circa 1170. The family are likely to have originated from Corsica, during the time when the Republic of Pisa was ruling the island. Initially the family was known as Corso ...

 family, and initially were gathered by the avid 17th century collector, the cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, and added to by other members and from collections of Pope Clement XII

Pope Clement XII

Pope Clement XII , born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740.Born in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Isabella Strozzi, sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo, Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding...

 and his nephew. In 1883, this palace and its contents were sold to the state, and the collection is displayed in its original location. The collection encompasses the breadth of mainly Italian art from early-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 to late-18th century. It has both religious and historical works, as well as landcapes and genre paintings.

Partial list of collection

Label	Painter	Span	Work	Date	Link
1	Beato Angelico		Pentecost, Ascension, and Last Judgement		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/angelico.htm
2	Cavalier d'Arpino	1560-1640	Resurrection of Lazarus
3	Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano , known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.- Life :...	1515-1592	Adoration of the shepherds		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/bassano.htm
4	Marco Benefial Marco Benefial Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....	1684-1786	Vision of Santa Catherine of Genoa
5	Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...	1560-1609	St. Francis
6	Caravaggio		St. John the Baptist	c. 1600	http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/caravaggio.htm
7	Marten Van Cleef		Rural festivity
8	Donato Creti Donato Creti Donato Creti was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal...	1671-1749	Adoration by the Magi
9	Donato Creti Donato Creti Donato Creti was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal...	1671-1749	Vision of Jacob
10	Cristoph van Der Lamen		The rescue
11	Anthony van Dyck Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...	1599-1641	Madonna della Paglia		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/dyck.htm
12	Marcantonio Franceschini Marcantonio Franceschini Marcantonio Franceschini , was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.-Biography :...	1648-1729	Ascension of the Magdalen
13	Francesco Francia	1450-1517	St. George and the dragon
14	Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio...	1563-1646	Madonna and child		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/gentileschi.htm
15	Luca Giordano Luca Giordano Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain....	1634-1705	Christ before the doctors
16	Luca Giordano Luca Giordano Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain....	1634-1705	Entry of Christ to Jerusalem
17	Guercino	1591-1666	Apollo and Marysas
18	Hans Hoffmann Hans Hoffmann Hans Hoffmann was an SS-Rottenführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....		The Leper
19	Angelica Kauffmann Angelica Kauffmann Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffman was a Swiss-Austrian Neoclassical painter. Kauffman is the preferred spelling of her name; it is the form she herself used most in signing her correspondence, documents and paintings.- Early years :She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland,...		Portrait
20	Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the household of Count Orazio Scotti...		St. Peter and St. Agatha
21	Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the household of Count Orazio Scotti...	1582-1647	Ascension of the Magdalen
22	Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the household of Count Orazio Scotti...	1582-1647	Tamar and Judith
23	Master del Solomon's Judgement		Denial by Peter
24	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Madonna with the Bambino
25	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Young St John the Baptist & Angels
26	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Trinity
27	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Martyrdom of St. Andrew
28	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Rebecca at the well
29	Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...	1625-1713	Flight to Egypt
30	Agostino Masucci Agostino Masucci Agostino Masucci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.Born in Rome, he initially apprenticed with Andrea Procaccino, and then became a member of the studio of Carlo Maratta. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1724, and from 1736 to 1738, he was director or Principe...	1690-1768
31	Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome.-Biography:Mola was born at Coldrerio . At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter...	1612-1666	Homer
32	Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo		Madonna with the Bambino		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/murillo.htm
33	Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italian rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.-Biography:...	1682-1754	Judith
34	Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...		Triumph of Ovid
35	Mattia Preti Mattia Preti Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta.- Biography :Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was sometimes called Il Cavalier Calabrese...	1613-1699	Tribute of gold
36	Mattia Preti Mattia Preti Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta.- Biography :Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was sometimes called Il Cavalier Calabrese...	1613-1699	San Bartolomeo
37	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	Portrait of Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome....
38	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	Magdalen
39	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	Ecce Homo
40	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	Salomè with head of the Baptist, St. Joseph and Christ crowned with thorns
41	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	Herod
42	Guido Reni Guido Reni Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...	1575-1642	St. Joseph
43	Jusepe de Ribera		Venus and dead Adonis		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/ribera.htm
44	Giovan Francesco Romanelli	1610-1662	Adoration by the Magi
45	Giovan Francesco Romanelli	1610-1662	Adoration by the Shepherds
46	Theodor Rombouts	1597-1637	Concert
47	Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic.-Early life:...	1615-1673
48	Peter Paul Rubens	1577-1640	St. Sebastian healed by angels		http://www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/rubens.htm
49	Giovanni Battista Salvi (Sassoferrato)	1605-1685
50	Andrea del Sarto Andrea del Sarto Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori , his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci,...	1486-1531	Madonna with the Bambino
51	Bartolomeo Schedoni Bartolomeo Schedoni Bartolomeo Schedoni was an Italian early Baroque painter from Reggio Emilia.-Biography:He was born in Modena, but moved to Parma with his father. Soon he was sent to be apprenticed under Federico Zuccari in Rome after 1598, with the sponsorship of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma. He soon...	1578-1615
52	Johann Heinrich Schonfeld Johann Heinrich Schönfeld Johann Heinrich Schönfeld was a Baroque painter of Germany.- External links :...	1609 - 1683
53	Gerard Seghers Gerard Seghers Gerard Seghers , also Zegers, was a Flemish Baroque painter and one of the leading Caravaggisti in the Southern Netherlands.-Biography:...	1591-1651
54	Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples.Massimo Stanzione was an Italian Baroque painter. Born in Naples in 1586, Massimo was greatly influenced by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, but what earned him the nickname of The Neapolitan Guido Reni was his...	1585-1656
55	Nicolas Tournier Nicolas Tournier Nicolas Tournier was a French Baroque painter.Born in Montbéliard, he followed the profession of his father, André Tournier, "a Protestant painter from Besançon". Little is known of his life before his arrival in Rome, where he worked between 1619 and 1626, and where he was influenced by the work...	1590-1657
56	Francesco Trevisani Francesco Trevisani thumb|250px|Portrait of [[Pietro Ottoboni |Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni]] by Francesco Trevisani. The [[Bowes Museum]], [[Barnard Castle]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]....		Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
57	Francesco Trevisani Francesco Trevisani thumb|250px|Portrait of [[Pietro Ottoboni |Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni]] by Francesco Trevisani. The [[Bowes Museum]], [[Barnard Castle]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]....		Martyrdom of St. Lucy
58	Francesco Trevisani Francesco Trevisani thumb|250px|Portrait of [[Pietro Ottoboni |Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni]] by Francesco Trevisani. The [[Bowes Museum]], [[Barnard Castle]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]....		The Virgin grieving
59	Francesco Trevisani Francesco Trevisani thumb|250px|Portrait of [[Pietro Ottoboni |Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni]] by Francesco Trevisani. The [[Bowes Museum]], [[Barnard Castle]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]....		Magdalen
60	Lucas Van Uder	1595-1672
61	Gaspar Van Wittel	1595-1672
62	Simon Vouet Simon Vouet Simon Vouet was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.-Life:...		Herod
63	Philips Wouwerman	1619 - 1668

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  The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy.The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante,...
  
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