Galery
of Lanfranco 
Galery
of Lanfranco |
This room is situated on the First Floor |
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This large room, whose ceiling shows the baroque Council of Gods made by Giovanni Lanfranco in 1624, was originally an open loggia turned towards the park of the villa. lt was probably used by Cardinal Scipione as a resting place for his guests in summer. |
| At the end of the 18th century it was closed by Domenico Corvi who restored the ceiling and decorated the walls with mythological frescoes. The place is now a gallery, which collects very important works realized in the beginning of the I 7th century, such as the School of Caravaggio and Carraccio paintings. One can see, for instance, Guido Reni’s Moses with Ten Commandments and Guercino’s The Lavish Son, or Francesco Albani’s The Four Seasons, wich reveals the author's descriptive talent and his love for classical style. |
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Also very interesting are Bernini’s Self-portraits and Painted portraits, as well as several sculptures by the 1st: from the round painting entitled Amalthea the Goat (1615) painted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini when he was seventeen years old and stilI inspired to classical ideals, to the Earthenware rough model for the equestrian statue of Louis XIV (1670) designed for a monument to the sun king and never realized.One can see also the marble busts of his maecenas Pope Paul V and the two portraits of Scipione Borghese, both realized in 1632. |