Spada GalleryGalleria Spada

Spada Gallery occupies Palazzo Spada, a Renaissance residence reshaped for Cardinal Bernardino Spada in the 17th c., where collecting became a statement of learning and power. Its compact rooms keep paintings close to the domestic setting that once framed them, from Titian to Artemisia Gentileschi, and read as a portrait of Roman taste across the late Renaissance and Baroque. In 1653 Francesco Borromini added the celebrated perspective gallery, a nine-metre corridor that seems to stretch into infinity, turning architecture into an argument about illusion and truth.