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| Caravaggio The Calling of Saints Peter & Andrew c. 1603-05 |
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| Cristofano Allori Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1613 |
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| Domenico Fetti David with the Head of Goliath 1620 |
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| Peter Oliver Self-portrait c. 1620-25 |
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| Anastasio Fontebuoni Madonna di Pistoia 1621 |
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| Giovanni Baglione Allegory of Justice & Charity 1622 |
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| Guido Reni Cleopatra 1628 |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Sibyl c. 1635-38 |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Two Musicians 1635 |
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| Guido Cagnacci Jacob Peeling the Rods 1650 |
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| Guercino Libyan Sibyl 1651 |
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| Carlo Dolci Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1665-70 |
Twelve Baroque Italian painters from the Royal Collection. Scholars who study the enormous body of surviving documentation estimate that in Rome alone during the seventeenth century there were about two thousand professional painters living and working. What they left behind resembles a sort of parallel city populated by silence, accessible to emotion.