The Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome is one of the largest private art collections in the capital and is located in the prestigious Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.

Is located a few steps from Piazza Venezia and the Quirinale Gardens.

Doria Pamphilj Gallery was created in 1651 at the behest of Giambattista Pamphilj who ascended to the papal throne as Pope Innocent X.

A year earlier, the famous portrait of the Pope was painted by Diego Velázquez when the collection was already large.

Thanks to the marriage between Camillo Pamphilj and Olimpia Aldobrandini in 1647, the marriage expanded the collection with works by Raphael, Titian, Parmigianino and Beccafumi.

The gallery still belongs today, together with its rich art collection, to the legitimate heirs of the homonymous family of ancient Genoese and Roman nobility.

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Between the mid XVII and the XIX century, the works of Caravaggio, Claude Lorrain, Bronzino and Sebastiano del Piombo were added to the collection.

In the same period, the entire collection found space inside Palazzo Colonna, formerly owned by the Della Rovere Family.

While between 1678 and 1681 special exhibition rooms were set up with the names of Stanza dei Quadri, Stanza degli Animali and Stanza delle Nazioni.

Paintings by Domenichino, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Mattia Preti, Guercino, Guido Reni, Velazquez, Brueghel the Elder and Gaspard Dughet.

Also on display are ancient XVII century sculptures, including some sarcophagi and busts, such as the two of Innocent X made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi.

Noteworthy are the four XVI century Brussels tapestries depicting the preceding and final phases of the Battle of Lepanto.

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