Pussino Room

The vast environment is characterized by numerous pieces by Pussino, a nickname that Gaspard Dughet derived from his brother-in-law Nicolas Poussin. The large canvases were probably commissioned by Prince Camillo Pamphilj for the Lazio residences of Valmontone and Nettuno, but they were soon brought here. Distributed across all the walls is a series of landscapes of the Roman countryside, which seems to be understood perhaps for the first time in its powerful summer intensity. Much of this sequence was created for very particular objects: surfaces painted on two sides, which served to divide spaces and probably to decorate and protect beds.