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Palazzo Farnese is one of the most beautiful and important buildings in Rome. Formerly considered one of the “four wonders of Rome,” it is an architectural jewel that holds extraordinary works of art.
Commissioned in 1513 by Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549), the future Pope Paul III, and completed in 1589, it was built under the direction of four great architects-Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo, the Vignola Giacomo Della Porta.
Among the masterpieces of Palazzo Farnese that will be on view during the guided tour is the world-famous Galleria Carracci, created between 1597 and 1608 by the brothers Annibale and Agostino Carracci, exponents of the new 16th-century classicism: a magnificent 20-meter vault frescoed with mythological subjects from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
The frescoes, amidst optical and perspective games, superimpose sculpture, painting and architecture in a triumph of light, shapes and colors that have amazed and fascinated observers for more than four hundred years.
The gallery in Palazzo Farnese, decorated mainly by Annibale, is still considered his masterpiece and is the most perfect conclusion to a century and a half of pictorial innovation in Europe, before the birth of the great artistic currents of the seventeenth century.
Other masterpieces of Palazzo Farnese include the Salone d’Ercole with 17th-century tapestries, sarcophagi adorned with mythological scenes and surmounted by sculptures of Roman warships, the Murano Gallery, and the Camerino also wonderfully frescoed by Annibale Caracci.
Also open to visitors since May 29, 2024, are the Basements of Palazzo Farnese, which hold a number of archaeological artifacts that can be traced back to three different periods of Ancient Rome, including two marvelous black-and-white tile mosaics, the first depicting animals and sea monsters, the second spectacular circus acrobats on horseback, the Desultores.
Since 1874 the Palace has been home to the French Embassy and from the following year also to the École française de Rome, a research institute and library.
Palazzo Farnese can only be visited by guided tour, purchased exclusively through this website: click here
For more information on the history and current events of Palazzo Farnese you can visit the website of the French Embassy in Italy by clicking here and the École française de Rome by clicking here
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