Southern European Paintings, 1600 to 1800

One of the most remarkable areas of the Museum, both for the number of works and also their excellent quality, is the collection of paintings created during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Italian Peninsula, France, and the kingdoms under Spanish rule. The works kept by the Museum are an excellent example of the richness and variety of painting during this period, from Bernardo Strozzi’s bravura, to Murillo’s touching subtleness, or Philippe de Champagne’s classicist accuracy in the seventeenth century, up to the eighteenth century’s taste for the Rococo and different interpretations of Neoclassicism.