Design for wall arrangement

The most important eighteenth-century additions to the Palazzo Colonna in Rome were completed under Cardinal Girolamo II Colonna (1708-1763). He commissioned Paolo Posi to build a gallery in the highly theatrical style of the eighteenth century. The present design is for the so-called Salone Turco in this new wing. The actual decoration was executed by the cardinal’s favourite painter Stefano Pozzi, who worked together with his brother Giuseppe (1723-1765) and the landscape painter Giovanni Angeloni (1740-1788).