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18-493: The palace accommodates a large art collection, the Galleria Spada . The collection was originally assembled by Cardinal Bernardino Spada in the 17th century, and by his brother Virgilio Spada, and added to by his grandnephew Cardinal Fabrizio Spada , In 1540, the palace was commissioned by Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro , and utilized as an architect Bartolomeo Baronino of Casale Monferrato , while Giulio Mazzoni and

36-494: A rising floor create the visual illusion of a gallery 37 meters long (it is 8 meters) with a life-size sculpture at the end of the vista, in daylight beyond: the sculpture is 60 cm high. Borromini was aided in his perspective trick by a mathematician. The Mannerist stucco sculptural decor of the palazzo's front and its courtyard façades feature sculptures crowded into niches and fruit and flower swags, grotesques and vignettes of symbolic devices ( impresi ) in bas-relief among

54-460: A team provided lavish external and internal stucco-work. The palace was briefly owned by the Mignanelli family, until in 1632, the palace was purchased by Cardinal Spada, who commissioned modifications from Francesco Borromini . The Baroque architect Borromini who created a masterpiece of forced perspective optical illusion in the arcaded courtyard, in which diminishing rows of columns and

72-714: Is a museum in Rome , which is housed in the Palazzo Spada on Piazza Capo di Ferro. The palazzo is also famous for its façade and for the forced perspective gallery by Francesco Borromini . The gallery exhibits paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. A state museum, it is managed by the Polo Museale del Lazio . The building now housing the Galleria Spada was originally built in 1540 for Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro . Bartolomeo Baronino, of Casale Monferrato,

90-775: Is called the Room of the Popes because of its fifty inscriptions describing the lives of select pontiffs, as commissioned by Cardinal Bernardino. It is also known as the Room with the Azure Ceiling because the ceiling is covered with a turquoise canvas divided into many little compartments marked "camerini da verno" (the local dialect camerini da verno is translated in Italian as camerini di inverno , 'winter cabins' in English). The ceiling coffers' decorations date back to 1777. Among

108-484: The University of Bologna , complete with his library and papers , a collection of about 400 ancient inscriptions and a grand collection of photographs . Most photographs documented artworks from Italy and elsewhere, some done by himself and some acquired from other collections, including part of the collection of Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà . The collections and accompanying database are managed, partly digitized, by

126-594: The 1940s, but reopened in 1951 thanks to the efforts of the Conservator of the Galleries of Rome, Achille Bertini Calosso and the Director, Federico Zeri . Zeri was committed to locating the remaining artwork that had been scattered during the war, as he intended to recreate the original layout of the 16th–17th version of the gallery, including the placement of the pictures, the furniture and the sculptures. Most of

144-543: The additional interest of being hung in the 17th-century manner, frame-to-frame, with smaller pictures "skied" above larger ones. Palazzo Spada was purchased by the Italian State in 1927 and today houses the Italian Council of State , which meets in its richly frescoed and stuccoed rooms. [REDACTED] Media related to Palazzo Spada at Wikimedia Commons Galleria Spada The Galleria Spada

162-756: The collections of many institutions, including the Frederick Mason Perkins collection in the Sacro Convento in Assisi ; Accademia Carrara ; Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia ; Galleria Spada , Rome; The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York; The Walters Art Museum , Baltimore. and Narodna Galerija in Ljubljana (with Ksenija Rozman). Zeri died at the age of 77, in his villa in Mentana on 5 October 1998. He bequeathed his estate to

180-427: The exhibited artwork comes predominantly from the private collection of Bernardino Spada , supplemented by smaller collections such as that of Virgilio Spada. The museum is located on the first floor of Palazzo Spada, in the wing that used to belong to Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro. The Cardinal had built the museum over the historical remains of his family's former home that had been established in 1548. The room

198-531: The paintings in this room are: Among the works in this room are: Among the paintings here are: The most important artworks are: Furthermore, work by: The Heaven Globe and the Earth Globe, dating back to the first decades of 18th century, made by the Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu , are also interesting highlights of the museum. Federico Zeri Federico Zeri (12 August 1921 – 5 October 1998)

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216-807: The sculpture's behalf with Pope Julius III , who purchased it and then gave it to the Cardinal. The palazzo hosts the Galleria Spada , the Cardinal Spada's collection, which includes four galleries of 16th and 17th-century paintings by Andrea del Sarto , Niccolò Tornioli , Guido Reni , Titian , Jan Brueghel the Elder , Guercino , Rubens , Dürer , Caravaggio , Domenichino , the Carracci , Salvator Rosa , Parmigianino , Francesco Solimena , Michelangelo Cerquozzi , Pietro Testa , Giambattista Gaulli , and Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi , and has

234-505: The small framed windows of a mezzanine , the richest Cinquecento façades in Rome. The colossal sculpture of Pompey the Great , erroneously believed to be the very one at whose feet Julius Caesar fell, was discovered under the party wall of two Roman houses in 1552: it was to be decapitated to satisfy the claims of both parties, which appalled Cardinal Capodiferro so, that he interceded on

252-598: The visual illusion of a gallery 37 meters long (it is 8 meters) with a lifesize sculpture at the end of the vista, in daylight beyond; the sculpture is 60 cm high. Borromini was aided in his perspective trick by a mathematician. The building was purchased in November 1926 by the Italian State to house the gallery and the State Council. The Galleria was opened in 1927 in the Palazzo Spada. It closed during

270-611: Was among the founding members of the Getty Villa 's board of trustees. He left in 1984, after his argument that the Getty kouros was a forgery and should not be bought, was rejected. Following this episode, Zeri became notorious for denouncing forgeries and misattributions. In 1984, when four students in Livorno hoaxed both the city and Modigliani experts into believing that a group of sculptures they have made were authentic, he

288-635: Was an Italian art historian specialised in Italian Renaissance painting . He wrote for the Italian newspaper La Stampa , and was a well known television-personality in Italy. Zeri was born in central Rome , and graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1945. Not wishing to enter the academic world, he worked in the Ministry of Public Education until 1952. In 1948 he was nominated director of Galleria Spada in Rome. In 1963 Zeri

306-512: Was one of the few who called on their amateurish style. Zeri also argued that some of the frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi , were made by Pietro Cavallini and not Giotto . Zeri's insistence that a painting can be attributed to an artist, by means of a careful examination or connoisseurship , without resort to external evidence such as documents or dates, met controversial responses. Zeri edited and researched catalogues of

324-458: Was the architect, while Giulio Mazzoni and a team provided lavish stuccowork inside and out. The palazzo was purchased by Cardinal Spada in 1632. He commissioned the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini to modify it for him, and it was Borromini who created the masterpiece of forced perspective optical illusion in the arcaded courtyard, in which diminishing rows of columns and a rising floor create

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