Berthier Gallery, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella

Berthier Gallery, with stucco vaulted ceiling and display of the family collection of 130 paintings, including Raphael, Correggio, Titian and Guido Reni, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The gallery was renamed in August 1797 after French general Louis-Alexandre Berthier who visited with Napoleon and slept in the gallery's alcove. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13744463

Media ID

45401135

Size

8268px x 5735px (16.5MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen

Date

2009