Just a few steps away from the famous Via Veneto, Palazzo Barberini is a place of unspeakable beauty, a marvelous Baroque palace designed by the most important architects of the 17th century – Carlo Maderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Home together with Palazzo Corsini to the National Gallery of Ancient Art, it houses a collection full of absolute masterpieces of art history, such as Filippo Lippi’s Annunciation, Raphael’s Fornarina or Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes.
But beauty is often also in the things hidden from view. That’s why, until 21 December, every Thursday at 11 a.m., the museum offers its visitors the chance to participate in the tour program DIETRO LE QUINTE. Unseen Paths at Palazzo Barberini. It is a valuable opportunity to discover new spaces, usually not accessible to the public, to understand how the museum takes care of the works even outside the exhibition route, and to find out stories, ideas, projects, activities and people related to conservation, restoration and heritage management aspects.
The first part of the visit is devoted to the Galleries’ deposits, which hold some 900 works in the large room where Cardinal Francesco Barberini’s rich library was housed in the 17th century. The second part includes access to the picture gallery on the second floor, the so-called “Museum Laboratory” where works that are routinely studied by scholars and specialists are kept.
Participation is included in the cost of the ticket. For more information, visit the museum’s official website.
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