{"id":430,"date":"2026-03-20T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:45:11","slug":"palazzo-doria-pamphilj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/?page_id=430","title":{"rendered":"Palazzo\u00a0Doria-Pamphilj\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the City\u2019s most interesting and publicly accessible private palaces, Palazzo Doria Pamphylj<\/u><\/strong>, stands next to the Bonaparte palace at the corner of the Via del Corso and the Via della Gatta. Built for Cardinal Fazio Santorio in 1507 over Caesar\u2019s and Agrippa\u2019s Saepta Julia (plebeian voting center), Pope Julius II later confiscated it and gave it to his own nephew, Francesco della Rovere. Over the course of time it was acquired by several aristocratic families (Aldobrandini, Landi, Pamphilji, Doria) all united through marriage. This huge structure, unusually, incorporates facades located on three sides of the palace<\/strong>, one on the Collegio Romano side (picture gallery entrance) designed by Pietro da Cortona<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many attribute the design of the courtyard<\/span> <\/strong>to Bramante<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0palace\u00a0for\u00a0many\u00a0years\u00a0has\u00a0housed\u00a0the\u00a0Doria-Pamphilj\u00a0art\u00a0collection<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>While the palace continues to serve their personal residence, the Doria\u00a0Pamphilj\u00a0family\u00a0opens\u00a0part\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0gallery\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0public.\u00a0It\u00a0remains\u00a0one\u00a0of\u00a0the City\u2019s\u00a0largest privately owned art collections,\u00a0<\/strong>made up of diverse artworks and furniture assembled by the family for almost four hundred years, including the contents\u00a0of the palace of Pope Innocent X in Piazza Navona, bequeathed to his nephew\u00a0Camillo\u00a0Pamphilj<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the great masterpieces in the collection include Velasquez\u2019s Portrait of Pope Innocent X<\/span><\/strong>. Legend has it that when asked whether he thought the image was lifelike, the pope replied, \u2018troppo vero\u2019 (too much so). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This wonderful collection possesses works by the most notable artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, not the least of which includes Bernini\u2019s sculpted bust of Pope Innocent X<\/span><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides works by Filippo Lippi, Titian, Raphael, the collection boasts of three <\/strong>Caravaggio paintings<\/strong>: the Flight into Egypt, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite the grandeur of the exterior, like most Roman palaces, the ground floor of the Palazzo<\/span> <\/strong>houses boutiques and shops of diverse sorts, and, as well, upper floors of apartments rented out to tenants, traditions handed down from earliest times and a common practice in the City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the City\u2019s most interesting and publicly accessible private palaces, Palazzo Doria Pamphylj, stands next to the Bonaparte palace at the corner of the Via del Corso and the Via della Gatta. Built for Cardinal Fazio Santorio in 1507 over Caesar\u2019s and Agrippa\u2019s Saepta Julia (plebeian voting center), Pope Julius II later confiscated it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}