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One of Italy’s loveliest and most important small museums, its highlights include some outstanding sculptures by Bernini and Canova (whose portrayal of Napoleon’s sister as a reclining Venus is arguably the museum’s most famous attraction), as well as paintings by Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Rubens, Dürer, and Cranach.
This collection of nine centuries of paintings includes important works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Raphael’s Transfiguration (his last great work), Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jerome, Bellini’s Pietà, and Caravaggio’s Descent from the Cross.
Raphael’s stately Betrothal of the Virgin contrasts with the earthier inspiration of Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus.
The stark realism you’ll see in Caravaggio’s Flagellation and the Seven Works of Mercy launched a whole Neapolitan school of “Caravaggeschi” displayed here.
Caravaggio admirers will find some of his greatest masterpieces right in the neighborhood: the St. Matthew trilogy in the fine Baroque church of San Luigi dei Francesi, and the moving Madonna of the Pilgrims in the Renaissance church of Sant’Agostino.