Galleria Spada site features

The perspective colonnade

Borromini, 1653. The thing to see, and the thing to stand on the axis for. Apparent length 37 metres, actual length 8, according to Wikipedia; the statue at the end is 60 cm high and reads as life-size.

Room I, the Room of the Popes

Papal inscriptions and a turquoise ceiling.

Room II

Renaissance frescoes and religious paintings.

Room III, the Gallery of the Cardinal

Designed in 1636-1637 to house Bernardino Spada's collection, and the room that explains the hang: this is a cardinal's gallery arranged as a cardinal arranged it.

Room IV

Paintings by the Caravaggisti.

The collection

Works by Guido Reni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio and others, predominantly from Bernardino Spada's private collection.

The courtyard

The sixteenth-century palace court, heavily worked in stucco, which you cross to reach the colonnade.