Doria Pamphili Gallery - a great art collection, stored in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome. Located between Via del Corso and Via delle GATT. The main entrance to the gallery is carried out with the Via del Corso. Facade of the palazzo facing on the same street, adjacent to the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. Gallery and Palazzo are privately owned Roman family Doria Pamphili.

A large collection of paintings, furniture and statues going back to the 16th century, members of the family Doria Pamphili, Landi and Aldobrandini, which will eventually result in marriages were united in one family. The collection, among other things, you can see paintings and furniture from the Palazzo Pamphili (Piazza Navona), owned by Pope Innocent X.

Palazzo expanded over the centuries. Perhaps today it is the biggest in Rome, located in a private property. Home collection is located in the state rooms and the chapel. But a large part of the collection is exhibited in the small galleries surrounding the courtyard. Part of the room converted into a well-lit gallery, where you can view the works of medieval and Byzantine art.

In 1767 the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, was renovated in honor of the wedding of Andrea IV Doria Pamphili Landi and Princess Maria Leopoldina of Savoy. Restoration architect spent Nicoletti Francesco Trapani.

The masterpiece of the collection is considered to be a portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez hand. Born Giovanni Battista Pamphili, Innocent ascended the papal throne in 1644. Since 1927 Velázquez picture is stored in a small room with a bust of Pope Bernini.

One of the relatives of Innocent, Camillo Pamphili, married the widow of Olympia Borghese, nee Aldobrandini - is it acquired the palazzo, then known as the Palazzo Aldobrandini. For a while, the young lived in this palace. In 1654 Camillo began to gradually expand it - the neighboring houses and the monastery were purchased and demolished. Over reorganization house of architects Antonio del Grande, and worked on the facade Gabriele Valvassori. One of the daughters Camille and Olivia - Anna Pamphili - in 1671 married a Genoese nobleman Giovanni Andrea Doria Landi, and that their descendants inherited the palace, where in the 18th century the Roman branch of the family Pamphili broken. In 1767, the state rooms have ceiling frescoes by artists of the late Baroque as Crescenzio Onofri, Aureliano Milani and Stefano Pozzi.