Galleria nazionale di Parma

Galleria nazionale di Parma
Location	Piazza della Pilotta, 6 Parma, Italy
Website	Official website

The Galleria nazionale di Parma is an art gallery in Parma, northern Italy.

Painters exhibited in the museum include Beato Angelico, Fra Angelico, Canaletto, Ludovico Carracci (The Funeral of the Virgin Mary), Agostino Carracci (Madonna and Child with Saints), Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Sebastiano del Piombo, Guercino (Susannah and the Elders), Parmigianino (Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine), Tintoretto, and others.

History

The Parmesan collections were established in Renaissance times by the Farnese family, with Pope Paul III and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.

In 1734, Charles III of Spain had most of the Farnese Collection moved to Naples. Some were kept thanks to the intervention of Philip, Duke of Parma.

Later, the remaining collection was increased with the addition of Greco-Roman findings, donations, and with the restitution of some of the works that had been taken to Naples, as well as, through new acquisitions under Duke Ferdinand (1758).

During the French occupation of Parma (1803–1814), the works were moved to Paris, returning in 1816. Duchess Marie Louise reordered the collections in the Palazzo della Pilotta and built the hall that now bears her name. She also acquired several noble collections in the duchy to avoid their dispersal.

Gallery

La Scapigliata by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1508
The Two Marys at the Tomb by Bartolomeo Schedoni, c. 1613
Madonna and Child by Anthony van Dyck, c. 1621-1627
Turkish Slave by Parmigianino, c. 1533
Suzanna and The Elders by Guercino, c. 1649
Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints by Annibale Carracci
Martyrdom of Four Saints by Antonio Correggio, c. 1524
Madonna della Scodella by Correggio, c. 1525-1530
Deposition by Correggio, c. 1522
Madonna and Child with St. Jerome and Mary Magdalene by Correggio, c. 1525-1528
Saint John Fleeing Christ's Arrest, copy (probably by an Emilian artist) of a lost original by Correggio, c. 1522
Madonna and Child with Saints by Fra Angelico
Christ Healing the Blind by El Greco, c. 1570-1575
Alessandro Farnese by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Deposition by Bartolomeo Schedoni, c. 1613
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein The Younger, c. 1530