Capitoline Picture Gallery
The CAPITOLINE PICTURE GALLERY consists essentially of pictures from the Sacchetti and Pio Collections. works by Italian and foreign painters from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
The paintings in ROOM I are largely from the Emilian school, with a Holy Family by Dosso Dossi, four works by Garofalo (Madonna with child, Annunciation, Madonna in Glory, Holy Family), and an Adoration of the Magi and a Flight into Egypt by Scarsellino. ROOM II contains works from the sixteenth century Venetian school: a Portrait of a woman (reputed to be S. Margherita) by Girolamo Savoldo; Strength and Temperance, two panels by Paolo Veronese. There is also a copy of his Rape of Europa in the Doge’s Palace in Venice, painted in collaboration with members of his studio; an unfinished painting by Palma il Vecchio (Christ and the Adulteress); an early work by Titian (the Baptism of Christ); a Portrait of a Crossbowman by Lorenzo Lotto; the Good Samaritan by Jacopo Bassano; a repentant Mary Magdalen by Domenico Tintoretto.
ROOM 111 contains important works by foreign artists who were working in Italy in the seventeenth century: Romulus and Remus suckled by the Wolf, by Rubens; Portrait of the engravers Piet de Jode the Elder and Younger and Portrait of the painters Luke and Cornelius de Wael by Van Dyck; Portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, by Velasquez; The Allegory of Vanity, by Simon Vouet; Wedding of St. Catherine, by Denis Calvaert.
ROOM IV is dedicated to works of the fourteenth century and includes those from the Sterbini collection. Of particular interest there is an Ascension, by Barnaba da Modena.
The CINI GALLERV [ROOM V) takes its name from the donor of an important collection which makes up the most important part of the porcelains on display, produced by the potteries of Capodimonte, Meissen etc.
The main feature of the HERCOLE’S ROOM [ROOM VI) is the large statue of Hercules in glit bronze.
In the St. PETRONILLA’S ROOM (ROOM VII). there is an enormous picture by Guercino of the burial and ascension of S. Petronilla; this was formerly in St. Peter’s, where is has been replaced by a mosaic copy. Also by Guercino there is Sto John the Baptist, Antonius and Cleopatra, a Persian Sybil, St. Matthew and he Angel. There is al so a Giovanni Lanfranco: Herminia among the Shepherds, a Francesco Albani: the Nativity of the Virgin, and finally a Gipsy fortune teller attributed to the young Caravaggio.
The NEW HALL [ROOM VIII) contains two works by Pietro da Cortona: Madonna and Child, Allumiere di Tolfa, and two landscapes by Domenichino, and the Triumph of Flora, a replica or copy of a painting in the Louvre by Nicholas Poussin.
In the CORRIDOR (ROOM IX) there are a Madonna and Child and St. Francis worshipping the Crucifix by Annibale Carracci and another Madonna and Child by Francesco Albani.
Attached to the Pinacoteca is the MEDAGLIERE; it contains Roman coins from the republican, imperial, Byzantine, Medieval and modern periods.
Tags: Capitoline Picture Gallery, Caravaggio, Domenico Tintoretto, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Guercino, Rubens, Velasquez