New spaces at Palazzo Barberini for the National Gallery of Ancient Art

At Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the spaces and layouts of the 16th century rooms – the five Sforza rooms and the two Colonna rooms – are growing and embellishing. Raffaello Sanzio, inside the National Gallery of Ancient Art. The new exhibition and lighting of the works was presented by the director Flaminia Gennari Santori to the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, who had the opportunity to admire it in the afternoon in preview, while from tomorrow it will be open to the public, “giving visitors back an organic and easily readable in an exhibition structure that highlights the history of Palazzo Barberini as well as its collections “, explains the director who also oversaw the rearrangement, with new lights, graphics and captions. A total of 42 works are exhibited in these rooms in the north wing of the building, as well as some temporary loans from public and private collections. The visitor is welcomed by the statue of the ‘Veiled’ by Antonio Corradini from 1743, to then continue with the rooms dedicated to the Holy Family; to Venice; in Ferrara; in Siena; the Renaissance with the famous portraits of Raphael’s ‘Fornarina’ and Holbein’s ‘Henry VIII’; to Mannerism with Vasari’s ‘Allegory of the Immaculate Conception’ exhibited for two weeks before the restoration; to the Barberini family. “An exhibition of high-level works of art is proposed in a new way, also giving visitors the vision of Palazzo Barberini – observes Massimo Osanna general director of the Museums at the AdnKronos – The importance that it gives itself to a stupendous ‘container’, enhancing both the works and this extraordinary building “. Director Flaminia Gennari Santori underlines to AdnKronos how” now the visit is even more legible, clear and enjoyable, a nice sign of opening after this year so difficult due to the closures determined by the pandemic for Covid. And after Palazzo Barberini, in November it will be the turn of Palazzo Corsini, another seat of the National Gallery of Ancient Art in Rome “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)