Search The Newsoom Masterpieces from Italy’s Chigi Palace on view for first time in U.S. at Auburn’s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Published: February 05, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body Auburn University’s College of Human Sciences has a connection to “Bernini and the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia,” one of the new exhibitions featured at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art when it re-opens for the semester on Feb. 9. The Palazzo Chigi or Chigi Palace, a prominent historical feature in the hillside town of Ariccia, Italy, is well known throughout the country, as it was designed by the legendary Italian artist and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini.