Pietro da Cortona

An idealized, even virginal vision of Saint Martina by Pietro da Cortona, thought to have originally graced Rome’s incomparable Barberini Palace, joined a roiling, rediscovered scene of “The Ecstasy of Saint Francis” by Giovanni Baglione, a Roman painter in the circle of Caravaggio.

On Friday, several of those works could still be seen at the museum, including 17th-century religious paintings like “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery” by Pietro da Cortona, “The Crowning with Thorns” by Valentin de Boulogne, “Christ Preaching to the Disciples” by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo and “Penitent Magdalene” by Guercino.

He is called Pietro Da Cortona, from the place of his birth.

Pietro da Cortona added the peculiar semicircular portico under Alexander VII.

Over the high altar is a large picture by Pietro da Cortona, of S. Carlo in a procession during the plague at Milan.