ROME

Museums

Sistine Chapel (Vatican)	Borghese Gallery (via Pinciana)	National Gallery of Ancient Art
Capitoline Museums (Piazza del Campidoglio)	Vatican Museums (viale Vaticano)

National Gallery of Ancient Art
Where: Via delle Quattro Fontane In the sixteenth-century Barbarini Palace (see chart) one finds the National Gallery of Ancient Art, displaying the works of the Corsini-Colonna collections and the gatherings of Barberini, Chigi and Sciarra. Among the most significant works are the tryptic of the Beato Angelico showing the Final Judgement, the Ascension and Pentacost; two works by Filippo Lippi, the Virgin with Child and the Annunciation; the Magdalene by Piero di Cosimo, the Fornarina by Raphael; a fresco by Andrea Sacchi, the Nativity and Baptism of Christ, by El Greco; Christ and the Adulteress by Tintoretto; the fresco by Pietro da Cortona decorating the ceiling of the main room of the palace (the Allegory of Divine Providence).