Galleria nazionale di Parma

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

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 discoveries, 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.

• Illustration — La Scapigliata by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1508 • Illustration — The Two Marys at the Tomb by Bartolomeo Schedoni, c. 1613 • Illustration — Madonna and Child by Anthony van Dyck, c. 1621-1627 • Illustration — Turkish Slave by Parmigianino, c. 1533 • Illustration — Suzanna and The Elders by Guercino, c. 1649 • Illustration — Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints by Annibale Carracci • Illustration — Martyrdom of Four Saints by Antonio Correggio, c. 1524 • Illustration — Madonna della Scodella by Correggio, c. 1525-1530 • Illustration — Deposition by Correggio, c. 1522 • Illustration — Madonna and Child with St. Jerome and Mary Magdalene by Correggio, c. 1525-1528 • Illustration — Saint John Fleeing Christ's Arrest, copy (probably by an Emilian artist) of a lost original by Correggio, c. 1522 • Illustration — Madonna and Child with Saints by Fra Angelico • Illustration — Christ Healing the Blind by El Greco, c. 1570-1575 • Illustration — Alessandro Farnese by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli • Illustration — Deposition by Bartolomeo Schedoni, c. 1613 • Illustration — Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein The Younger, c. 1530 • Illustration — Portrait of Marie Louise by Giovanni Battista Borghesi, 1839