Palazzo Corsini, Rome

The rear entrance of the Palazzo Corsini

The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque palace in Rome, erected for the Corsini family between 1730–1740 as an elaboration of the prior building on the site, a 15th-century villa of the Riario family, based on designs of Ferdinando Fuga. It is located in the Trastevere section of the city, and stands beside the Villa Farnesina. 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 Maria Corsini, nephew of Pope 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.

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

Galleria Corsini

View of Rome from the Gianicolo, di Giuseppe Vasi (al centro il palazzo 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, Galleria Borghese, and the Palazzo Corsini.

The majority of the major works in the Corsini Gallery collection were donated by the Corsini 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 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 to late-18th century. It has both religious and historical works, as well as landscapes and genre paintings.

Partial list of collection

Label	Painter	Span	Work	Date	Link
1	Beato Angelico		Pentecost, Ascension, and Last Judgement
2	Cavalier d'Arpino	1560–1640	Resurrection of Lazarus
3	Jacopo Bassano	1515–1592	Adoration of the shepherds
4	Marco Benefial	1684–1786	Vision of Santa Catherine of Genoa
5	Annibale Carracci	1560–1609	St. Francis
6	Caravaggio		St. John the Baptist	c. 1600
7	Marten van Cleef		Rural festivity
8	Donato Creti	1671–1749	Adoration by the Magi
9	Donato Creti	1671–1749	Vision of Jacob
10	Cristoph van Der Lamen		The rescue
11	Anthony van Dyck	1599–1641	Madonna della Paglia
12	Marcantonio Franceschini	1648–1729	Ascension of the Magdalen
13	Francesco Francia	1450–1517	St. George and the dragon
14	Orazio Gentileschi	1563–1646	Madonna and child
15	Luca Giordano	1634–1705	Christ before the doctors
16	Luca Giordano	1634–1705	Entry of Christ to Jerusalem
17	Guercino	1591–1666	Apollo and Marysas
18	Hans Hoffmann		The Leper
19	Angelica Kauffman		Portrait
20	Giovanni Lanfranco		St. Peter and St. Agatha
21	Giovanni Lanfranco	1582–1647	Ascension of the Magdalen
22	Giovanni Lanfranco	1582–1647	Tamar and Judith
23	Master del Solomon's Judgement		Denial by Peter
24	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Madonna with the Bambino
25	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Young St John the Baptist & Angels
26	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Trinity
27	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Martyrdom of St. Andrew
28	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Rebecca at the well
29	Carlo Maratta	1625–1713	Flight to Egypt
30	Agostino Masucci	1690–1768
31	Pier Francesco Mola	1612–1666	Homer
32	Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo		Madonna with the Bambino
33	Giovanni Battista Piazzetta	1682–1754	Judith
34	Nicolas Poussin		Triumph of Ovid
35	Mattia Preti	1613–1699	Tribute of gold
36	Mattia Preti	1613–1699	San Bartolomeo
37	Guido Reni	1575–1642	Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
38	Guido Reni	1575–1642	Magdalen
39	Guido Reni	1575–1642	Ecce Homo
40	Guido Reni	1575–1642	Salomè with head of the Baptist, St. Joseph and Christ crowned with thorns
41	Guido Reni	1575–1642	Herod
42	Guido Reni	1575–1642	St. Joseph
43	Jusepe de Ribera		Venus and dead Adonis
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	1615–1673
48	Peter Paul Rubens	1577–1640	St. Sebastian healed by angels
49	Giovanni Battista Salvi (Sassoferrato)	1605–1685
50	Andrea del Sarto	1486–1531	Madonna with the Bambino
51	Bartolomeo Schedoni	1578–1615
52	Johann Heinrich Schonfeld	1609–1683
53	Gerard Seghers	1591–1651
54	Massimo Stanzione	1585–1656
55	Nicolas Tournier	1590–1657
56	Francesco Trevisani		Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
57	Francesco Trevisani		Martyrdom of St. Lucy
58	Francesco Trevisani		The Virgin grieving
59	Francesco Trevisani		Magdalen
60	Lucas Van Uder	1595–1672
61	Gaspar Van Wittel	1595–1672
62	Simon Vouet		Herod
63	Philips Wouwerman	1619–1668

Sources

• Palazzo Corsini
• Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, hosted in the Palazzo Corsini and neighboring Villa Farnesina.
• Romecity entry

Coordinates: 41°53′36″N 12°28′00″E / 41.893329°N 12.466586°E

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