The splendid Palazzo Corsini, together with Palazzo Barberini, is the site of the prestigious National Gallery of Ancient Art in Rome. Its itinerary includes eight rooms, arranged according to “encrustation”, the seventeenth-century technique that wanted the walls to be densely occupied.

The collection contains a sophisticated nucleus of paintings which date back to the period from the Fourteenth century to the Eighteenth century, with a preponderance of Italian Baroque and Flemish paintings, and important examples of works of landscapers.

The collection of the gallery includes works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Hans Holbein, Beato Angelico, Nicolas Poussin, El Greco, Raphael, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Rubens, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera and Titian.

It also hosts the National Academy of the Lincei, the oldest academy in the world (Galileo Galilei was one of its first associates) and most of its gardens belong to the Botanical Garden.