Galleria Borghese
Established | 1903 |
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Location | Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy |
Coordinates | 41°54′51″N 12°29′32″E / 41.9142°N 12.4922°E |
Type | Art museum |
Director | Francesca Cappelletti[1] |
Website | galleriaborghese |
The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese Collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The building was constructed by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.
Scipione Borghese was an early patron of
History
The Casino Borghese was erected in an area that in the seventeenth-century was outside the walls of Rome, with the closest access being the Porta del Popolo. At the origins, the villa grounds covered an area with a circumference of nearly 3 miles.[2] The main building was designed by the Flemish architect Giovanni Vasanzio. The portico had spolia derived from the Arch of Claudius, once on the Via Flaminia.[3]
By 1644,
In 1808, Prince
The Borghese villa was modified and extended down the years, eventually being sold to the Italian government in 1902, along with the entire Borghese estate and surrounding gardens and parkland.
Collection
The Galleria Borghese includes twenty rooms across two floors.
The main floor is mostly devoted to classical antiquities of the 1st–3rd centuries
The main floor's main large room, called the
The first room off the Salone, is the Camera di Cerere, with marble vase depicting Oedipus and the Sphinx. The second room has a ceiling frescoed by Francesco Caccianiga with the Fall of Phaeton. The third room houses Bernini's Apollo and Daphne.[7]
Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the Borghese
Many of the sculptures are displayed in the spaces for which they were intended, including many works by
Nearby museums
Also in
Gallery
Sculptures
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Truth Unveiled by Time by Bernini, c. 1645–1652
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Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, c. 1622
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Amazonomachy - sculpture group with an Amazon attacking a Barbarian and a Greek, c. 160 CE, Roman copy of Greek original
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Rape of Proserpineby Bernini, c. 1621
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David by Bernini, c. 1623–1624
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Pauline Bonaparte by Antonio Canova
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Bust of Scipione Borghese by Bernini, c. 1632
Paintings
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Melissa by Dosso Dossi, c. 1507
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Saint Jerome Writing by Caravaggio, c. 1606
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The Deposition by Raphael, c. 1507
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St John the Baptist by Caravaggio, c. 1610
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The Last Supper by Jacopo Bassano, c. 1546
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Madonna, Child and Serpent by Caravaggio, c. 1605–1606
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Danaëby Correggio, c. 1530
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Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio, c. 1593
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Diana and Her Nymphs by Domenichino, c. 1616–1617
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The Scourging of Christ by Titian, c. 1560
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Deposition by Sisto Badalocchio, c. 1610
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St John the Baptist by Paolo Veronese, c. 1562
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Deposition by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1602
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The Concert by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1626–1630
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Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina, c. 1474–1475
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Lady with a Unicorn by Raphael, c. 1505
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Venus Blindfolding Cupid by Titian, c. 1565
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St. Dominic by Titian, c. 1565
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Portrait of a Man by Parmigianino, c. 1528
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Madonna and Child and Saints by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1508
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Susanna and The Elders by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1607–1608
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Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1510
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Young Sick Bacchus by Caravaggio, c. 1593
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Self Portrait by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, c. 1623
Notes
- ^ Brown, Kate (17 November 2020), "The New Director of Rome's Famed Galleria Borghese Plans to Take the Museum in a 'More Contemporary Direction.' Here's How", artnet, retrieved 19 November 2020
- ^ Guida metodica di Roma e suoi contorni, by Giuseppe Melchiorri, Rome (1836); page 609.
- ^ Melchiorri, page 610.
- ISBN 978-0-89236-539-5
- ^ He had married Pauline Bonaparte; Antonio Canova's half-nude portrait of her as Venus Victrix takes pride of place in one of the galleries.
- ^ Melchiorri, pages 610–611.
- ^ Melchiorri, page 611.
- ^ Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100–1850)
- ^ Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100–1850)
- ^ Apollo and Daphne by BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo Archived 2005-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100–1850)
- ^ Bust of Scipione Borghese by BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo
External links
- Official website
- Borghese.Gallery – created by Roman experts.
- Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) Description of the painting.
- Architecture and gardens on the Villa Borghese or Casino
- Reviews of Galleria Borghese
- Satellite photo — the Galleria Borghese is the villa in the center of the photograph surrounded by landscaped gardens.
- Roman Map of the area with related services
- Galleria Borghese travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Media related to Museo e Galleria Borghese at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by Doria Pamphilj Gallery |
Landmarks of Rome Galleria Borghese |
Succeeded by Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome |