Palazzo Barberini launches new #fictionBarberini column

Starting Tuesday, April 21, for the Tuesday of each week, the Barberini-Corsini National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome are offering a new column on their social channels Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

It is #fictionBarberini: Palazzo Barberini will be told from the point of view of writers, screenwriters and directors who have had a cinematic relationship with the Roman museum venue.

The palace is featured in many films, such as Vacanze Romane (1953),William Wyler and Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam (2011), and its monumental surroundings, the Barberinis themselves and some of the works in the collection have not only been background, but have become protagonists in many literary works.

Starting in the 19th century, Palazzo Barberini became a source of fascination especially for foreign writers and poets who undertook long stays in Italy, such as the Englishmen Anna Jameson and Henry Neele.

The sumptuousness and magnificence of the building repeatedly attracted the attention of literary figures, such as D’Annunzio in Piacere (1889), and the Barberini family was among the characters in Dostoevsky ’s The Gambler (1866), or Dumas father in The Red Sphinx (1866).
Percy Shelley, Stendhal, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, just to name a few, finally retrace the story of Beatrice Cenci, immortalized in the painting preserved in Palazzo Barberini.

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Palazzo Barberini launches new #fictionBarberini column

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