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The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (National Gallery of Ancient Art) is an art gallery located in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy. It was designed by Italian architect Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) on the old location of Villa Sforza for Pope Urban VIII. The central room of the gallery was designed and decorated by Pietro da Cortona, under the theme "Triumph of the Providence", to glorify the papal family. The gallery's collection includes works by , Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Hans Holbein, Perugino, Nicolas Poussin, Giulio Romano, Raphael, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, and Tiziano, to name a few.
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