1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X, a member of the Pamphilj family, whose portrait by Velázquez is in the Doria Pamphilj collection

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery, in Rome is a large privately owned art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. (pronounced Doreeya Pamfeelee). It is situated between the Via del Corso and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Piazza del Collegio Romano. Download high resolution version (851x1011, 124 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (851x1011, 124 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Innocent X né Giovanni Battista Pamphili (May 6, 1574 – January 5, 1655) was Pope from 1644 to 1655. ... Velázquezs 1643 self-portrait This article pertains to the artist. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ...

The large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary which includes works by Jacopo Tintoretto, Tiziano, Raffaello Sanzio, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guercino, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Parmigianino, Gaspard Dughet, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Velázquez and many other notable artists has been assembled since the 16th century by the Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini families now united through marriage and descent under the simplified surname Doria Pamphilj. Detail of a self-portrait Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 - May 31, 1594) was an Italian painter from Venice. ... Titian. ... This page is about the artist. ... Correggio is the name of a town in Italy and of a famous painter who was born there. ... Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 28, 1573 – July 18, 1610), named after his hometown Caravaggio near Milan, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people. ... The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ... A self portrait: Bernini is said to have used his own features in the David (below, left) Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680), who worked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. ... Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror(c. ... Gaspar Poussin, born Gaspar Dughet (1613 - May 27, 1675) was a painter. ... Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. ... Velázquezs 1643 self-portrait This article pertains to the artist. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Doria, originally de Auria, from de filiis Auriae, the sons of Auria, and then de Oria or dOria, is the name of an old Genoese family whose history is indistiguishable from that of the Republic of Genoa from the 12th century to the 16th century. ...

As the fortunes of the family grew so did the collection, thus the Palazzo was almost continuously extended accordingly; the palazzo is the largest in Rome still in private ownership, and provides a worthy setting for the collection. Much of the collection is displayed in a series of state rooms, including the chapel, complete with the mummified corpse of the family saint. However, the bulk is displayed in a series of four gilded and painted galleries surrounding a courtyard. An extensive suite of further rooms have now been converted to permanent well-lit galleries, containing the more medieval and Byzantine art in the collection. A State Room in a large European mansion, is usually one of a suite of very grand rooms which were designed to impress, they were the most luxurious in the house and contained the finest works of art. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... A mummy is a corpse whose skin, and flesh, have been preserved by deliberate or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness. ... With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ... In general, the term Saint refers to someone who is exceptionally virtuous and holy. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...

The piece de resistance of the collection is generally held to be Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X. The pope previously known as Giovan Battista Pamphilj had become pope in 1644; in the portrait the artist does not idealize the pope's countenance, yet the portrait is not unflattering; Innocent X's features were by his contemporaries believed to symbolise a despotic lifestyle and vindictive character. The portrait painted circa 1650 to commemorate the Holy year was commissioned by his hedonistic sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini who was his close confidante and adviser, and some say mistress. In 1927 Velázquez's Innocent X was placed in a specially designated small room devoted entirely to the pope, and it is still displayed there today. The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church. ... Diego Velazquez portrait, which Innocent X found too truthful Innocent X, né Giovanni Battista Pamphili (May 6, 1574 - January 5, 1655), Pope from 1644 to 1655, was born in Rome in 1574, attained the dignity of cardinal in 1629. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors. ... Despotism is government by a singular authority, either a single person or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute power. ... // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ...

Tiziano Vecellio's Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist, painted circa 1515

It was Olimpia Maidalchini's son Camillo Pamphilij who defying his powerful mother, renounced the Cardinalship conferred on him by his uncle the Pope, to marry the widowed Olimpia Borghese. Born an Aldobrandini it was she who brought the palazzo, then known as the Palazzo Aldobrandini, into the Pamphilj family. Following a period of exile in the country, to avoid confrontation with the Pope and Olimpia Maidalchini, the newly married couple took up permanent residence in the Palazzo Aldobrandini which from 1654 Camillo began to expand on a large scale; neighbouring houses and a convent were bought and demolished as the Palazzo grew, in spite of local opposition from the neighbouring Jesuits at the Collegio Romano. The architect in charge of this lengthy project was Antonio Del Grande. The façade facing the Via del Corso, however, is by Gabriele Valvassori. Following Camillo Pamphilj's death in 1666, the building continued under the auspices of his two sons Giovanni Battista (his heir) and Benedetto. Salomé, by Titian The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Salomé, by Titian The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Titian. ... // Events June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... The North American College at the Gregorian The Pontifical Gregorian University is a Roman Catholic theological seminary in Rome. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ...

One of Camillo and Olimpia's daughters, Anna Pamphlij, married the Genoese aristocrat Giovanni Andrea III Doria Landi in 1671, and it was their descendents who inherited the Palazzo when the Roman branch of the Pamphlilj family ended in 1760. In 1763 Principe Andrea IV combined his Genoese and Roman names to the present Doria-Pamphilij-Landi. In 1767 the ceilings of the state rooms were frescoed in the baroque manner seen today. Events May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...

The collection was first opened to the public by the half-English Orietta Pogson Doria Pamphilj (correctly titled Principessa del Sacro Romano Imperato di Torriga Donna Orietta Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 4th Principessa di Melfi, 8th Principessa di San Martino al Cimino e di Valomontone, San Martino, Valditarom and Santo Stefano d'Aveto, 8th Duchessa di Auigliano e di Montelancio, Marchessa di Montecalvella, di Croce, di Val Trebbia e di Ottone, di Carbagna, di Grondona, di Vargo, di Carrega, di Cremonte, di Cabella e di Fontanarossa etc. Principessa Doria-Pamphilj-Landi) whose English husband Frank Pogson adopted her name. Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...

The Principessa did much to restore the collection and the Palazzo, following her death in 1998 the guardianship of the collection was taken over by her adopted, English born, son, the next prince - Don Jonathan Doria Pamphilj, he and his family still reside in the palazzo. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Note: The Palazzo housing the Gallery Doria Pamphilj should not be confused with the Palazzo Pamphilj, in Rome's Piazza Navona. Palazzo Pamphilj also spelt Palazzo Pamphili, in Romes Piazza Navona was built between 1644 and 1650 by Girolamo Rainaldi and Borromini for Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (later Pope Innocent X). ... Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in the middle of Piazza Navona Piazza Navona, which follows the plan of an ancient circus, was built in monumental style by the family of Pope Innocent X (Pamphilj). ...

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