Museum National Gallery of Ancient Art in Rome

You're standing at the Palazzo Barberini, one of the two homes of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome's national collection of older paintings. The other is the Palazzo Corsini, across the Tiber. Take a look at this palace. It was built in the seventeenth century for Pope Urban VIII, who came from the Barberini family. The architect was Carlo Maderno. In 1629, two giants took over the work: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Borromini gave it its famous oval staircase.