Galleria Doria-Pamphilj

A typical room in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj. (Photo by Anthony Majanlahti)

Rome's Galleria Doria-Pamphilj is a princely private collection

Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1594-1596).

This private art collection of the Doria Pamphilj (in Roman dialect, a final "j" is pronounced like an "i") princes is now open to the public, the layout preserved and paintings displayed more or less as they were in the 19th century.

(The princely Doria Pamphilj family still lives in another wing of the palazzo)

Since the works are jumbled together like a giant jigsaw puzzle on the dimly lit walls, you need to use the list of artists and titles they hand out at the entrance to match to the numbers on the works themselves.

Caravaggio's Young St. John the Baptist (1602).

Among masterworks by Tintoretto, Correggio, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci, Bellini, Parmigianino, you'll find works by Flemish masters like Jan and Pieter Bruegel the elders, Rubens, and Hans Memling.

There are also three stellar paintings by Caravaggio:Mary Magdalene, the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, and a copy he made of his own Young St. John the Baptist, now in the Capitoline Museums.

Also here are Titian's Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, and Bernini's Bust of Innocent X, whose sister-in-law started this collection.

Tips & links

Details

ADDRESS

Via del Corso 305 / Piazza del Collegio Romano 1A (off Via del Corso near Piazza Venezia).
tel. +39-06-679-7323
www.doriapamphilj.it

OPEN

Daily 9am–7pm

ADMISSION

€12
Roma Pass: No

TRANSPORT

Bus: 116, 116T; 40, 60, 64, 70, 117, 170, H, N7, N8, N9, N15, N18
Metro: Colosseo (B)
Hop-on/hop-off: Colosseo

TOURS

Sounds and Visions of Caravaggio

How long does Galleria Doria-Pamphilj take?

Planning your day: Figure on spending 45–90 minutes in the museum, depending on how much you like art (and expect it to take a bit longer than you'd think, since you have to spend some time matching up paintings to the corresponding little maps of the walls in each room so you can identify works; they aren't labeled as in a modern museum—though occasionally a frame will have a tiny ID plaque nailed to it from a century or two ago).

The ticket office closes one hour before the museum.

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