The National Galleries of Ancient Art present the Annibale Carracci exhibition from 17 November 2022 to 5 February 2023 at Palazzo Barberini. The frescoes of the Herrera chapel , curated by Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos , deputy director of the Prado Museum, and organized with the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

“This exhibition is the result of the joint work of three major international institutions; it will be a unique opportunity to understand what the Herrera chapel in San Giacomo degli Spaniards was, admired and imitated in the 17th and 18th centuries and destroyed in 1830, as well as naturally constituting a fundamental opportunity for research and studies on Annibale Carracci and his workshop”, commented Flaminia Gennari Santori , director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art.

The exhibition, which had two previous stages, at the Prado Museum in Madrid and at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, brings together the cycle of frescoes designed by Annibale Carracci for the decoration of the family chapel of the Spanish banker Juan Enriquez de Herrera in the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Piazza Navona.

In the spaces of the Sala Marmi, the Sala Ovale and the Sala Paesaggi of Palazzo Barberini , 16 frescoes will be exhibited, the altarpiece by Annibale Caracci , coming from the Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli, a selection of drawings , a video produced from the Prado Museum which illustrates the events linked to the genesis of the Herrera chapel, to the authors and iconography, to the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, to the dispersion of the paintings and finally to their restoration.

In particular , in the Sala Marmi a structure was rebuilt in the same proportions as the Chapel, inside which the frescoes were inserted according to the original sequence of the cycle.