The Doria Pamphilj gallery – a huge collection of works of art preserved in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome. Located between via del Corso and the via delle Gatte. The main entrance to the gallery is done via del Corso. The facade of the Palazzo facing 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 gathered from the 16th century members of the families of the Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini, which will eventually result in marriage United in one family. In the collection, among other things, you can see paintings and furniture from the Palazzo Pamphili (in Piazza Navona), which belonged to Pope innocent X.

The Palazzo was enlarged over several centuries. Probably, today it is the largest in Rome, which is in private ownership. The main collection is located in the staterooms, as well as in the chapel. But much of the collection exhibited in the galleries surrounding the courtyard. Part of the bathroom converted into a well-lit gallery where you can see 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 conducted by the architect from Trapani Francesco Nicoletti.

The masterpiece collection is the portrait of Pope innocent X by Velazquez. Born Giovanni Battista Pamphili, Pope innocent ascended the papal throne in 1644. Since 1927 painting velázquez is stored in a special small room together with a bust of Pope by Bernini.

One of the relatives of the innocent, Camillo Pamphili, he married the widow of Olympia Borghese, née Aldobrandini, - that it has acquired the Palazzo, then known as the Palazzo Aldobrandini. While young lived in this Palace. In 1654 Camillo gradually began to expand his nearby house and monastery were purchased and demolished. Over the remodelling of the house worked the architect Antonio del Grande, and on the facade worked Gabriele Valvassori. One of the daughters Camillo and Olivia – Anna Pamphili – in 1671 married a Genoese aristocrat Giovanni Andrea Doria Landi, and that their descendants inherited the Palazzo, when in the 18th century, the Roman branch of the family of Pamphili broke. In 1767 ceilings of the main halls were painted with murals by such artists of the late Baroque, as Crescenzio Onofri, Aureliano Milani and Stefano Pozzi.