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Borghese Gallery
Superb collection of seventeenth-century cardinals come down to us substantially intact and even enhanced by the additions of historical end 700.
Undermined by serious problems of stability and long considered at risk of collapse because of widespread hydro-geological instability that affected the whole area, the building has suffered because of prolonged closure has deprived the Romans and tourists for years one of the jewels richest and most sophisticated museum available to the capital.
Typical example of a Renaissance villa of delights memory, the beautiful suburban residence located outside Porta Pinciana is one of the few surviving examples of that boundary patrician residences swept away by the building boom following the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy: luckily escaped to a typical speculation at the time, was acquired by the Italian state in 1902 in
whole consists of building, collections and gardens, the latter sold the following year the City of Rome.
The original nucleus of the villa dates back to the early seventeenth century when Scipione Borghese, unscrupulous patron and collector, who became cardinal nephew of Pope Paul V and thus the beneficiary of substantial income, decided to transform an old, anonymous vineyard
sixteenth in the prestigious outside door of the house, place of literary pleasures and rural gladdened by an endless collection of ancient marbles and art of the most established and promising artists on the square since Roman times. The result was a building with signature architects Flaminio Ponzio and Vasanzio, built between 1613 and 1615 with the model of the plant U-century Villa Farnesina in Lungara, with a facade entirely encrusted with antique statues and bas-reliefs and a very simple total internal , seen as neutral ground on which stands the superb art collection put together by means not always legitimate.
Forced withdrawals made at night (as in the famous Baglioni Deposition by Raphael), paintings extorted even impose prison (as it fell to Domenichino) or taking generously into the coffers of the Apostolic Chamber, they converge in the house works of exceptional value that still dazzle with their beauty to modern visitors.
Raphael, Perugino, Dosso Dossi, Beccafumi Sodom, Lot, Bronzino, Nicholas Abbot, Parmigianino, among the oldest, Reni, Guercino, Domenichino and Albani Algardi contemporaries were among the spoils of unscrupulous operations consisting of Scipio, whose shot But he was masterful collection of some of the absolute masterpieces of the '600 made by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and his protege Gianlorenzo Bernini, a sculptor who is represented in the Gallery of works that trace the entire parable of art, the trials represented youth the Goat Amalthea dall'Ermafrodito, Enea and Anchises, by David dall'Apollo and Daphne and the Rape of Proserpine to that of maturity such as busts of Paul V and Scipione Borghese and the group of Truth unveiled by Time .
Also the extraordinary concentration of autographs in the hand of Caravaggio which visit in illuminating juxtaposition works Bacchinomalato caliber of youth and the Boy with a Basket of Fruit and evidence of maturity, such as the Madonna of Palafrenieri the St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist; particularly striking about the biographical notes on David with the Head of Goliath, whose severed head is universally recognized as the ultimate portrait of the artist before the tragic premature death.
The appearance of the austere but ornate villa of Scipio, whose only concession was the fresco decoration of the loggia at the back painted by Lanfranc in 1624, was completely distraught at the 700 when Marcantonio Borghese gave way to a total renovation that made the seventeenth-century building a real laboratory nascent neoclassical style, an array of the most successful artists and craftsmen of the time expended with generosity in every room of the building is richly decorated plastic-pictorial of extreme refinement that finds its highest total in frescoed vault of the entrance hall, where a complex historical allegory is celebrated in key auspicious birth of the firstborn of Marcantonio.
It is to this stage, the creation of the subtle interplay of thematic correspondences between works and frescoes that makes it so unique and balanced relationship container / content that governs the Galleria Borghese.
Address: Piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5
HOURS: Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00 (with access to every two hours - last admission 17.00)
Closed Monday, December 25, January 1
Tickets:
Full price: € 8.50
Reduced: € 5.25
Guided tour: € 5.00
Reservation: € 2.00
Audio guide: € 5.00
Notes:
The ticket price includes entrance to the museum (including booking) excluding the integration of current exhibitions.
- Supplement for advance purchase online by credit card via the service 060608 € 0.50
Tickets purchased by telephone can be collected both banks of the Museum at the new totem near the ticket machines installed at the plan's services Borghese typing on the touch screen the booking code.
Phone: (Mon-Fri 9:00 to 6:00 p.m., Saturdays 9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) - 06 32810 prEN
ROMA PASS: The site falls within the Roma Pass circuit
Guided tours
In the Gallery:
* In Italian: 11.10 am - 3:10 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.
* In English: hours 9:10 to 11:10
Group reservations fax 0039 06 8555952
The new Art Gallery: Tuesday-Sunday at 16.00 and 17.00
Free tour booking required: € 2.00
Max 18 guests.
Secret Gardens: educational visits
Free and schools of every grade.
Info and reservations 0039 06 39967800
Mon-Fri 9:00 to 17:00 hours, Saturdays 9:00 to 13:30
Website: www.galleriaborghese.it
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Borghese Gallery
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Superb collection of seventeenth-century cardinals come down to us substantially intact and even enhanced by the additions of historical end 700. Undermined by serious problems of stability and long considered at risk of collapse because of widespread hydro-geological instability that affected the whole area, the building has suffered because of prolonged closure has deprived the Romans and tourists for years one of the jewels richest and most sophisticated museum available to the capital. Typical example of a Renaissance villa of delights memory, the beautiful suburban residence located outside Porta Pinciana is one of the few surviving examples of that boundary patrician residences swept away by the building boom following the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy: luckily escaped to a typical speculation at the time, was acquired by the Italian state in 1902 in whole consists of building, collections and gardens, the latter sold the following year the City of Rome. The original nucleus of the villa dates back to the early seventeenth century when Scipione Borghese, unscrupulous patron and collector, who became cardinal nephew of Pope Paul V and thus the beneficiary of substantial income, decided to transform an old, anonymous vineyard sixteenth in the prestigious outside door of the house, place of literary pleasures and rural gladdened by an endless collection of ancient marbles and art of the most established and promising artists on the square since Roman times. The result was a building with signature architects Flaminio Ponzio and Vasanzio, built between 1613 and 1615 with the model of the plant U-century Villa Farnesina in Lungara, with a facade entirely encrusted with antique statues and bas-reliefs and a very simple total internal , seen as neutral ground on which stands the superb art collection put together by means not always legitimate. Forced withdrawals made at night (as in the famous Baglioni Deposition by Raphael), paintings extorted even impose prison (as it fell to Domenichino) or taking generously into the coffers of the Apostolic Chamber, they converge in the house works of exceptional value that still dazzle with their beauty to modern visitors. Raphael, Perugino, Dosso Dossi, Beccafumi Sodom, Lot, Bronzino, Nicholas Abbot, Parmigianino, among the oldest, Reni, Guercino, Domenichino and Albani Algardi contemporaries were among the spoils of unscrupulous operations consisting of Scipio, whose shot But he was masterful collection of some of the absolute masterpieces of the '600 made by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and his protege Gianlorenzo Bernini, a sculptor who is represented in the Gallery of works that trace the entire parable of art, the trials represented youth the Goat Amalthea dall'Ermafrodito, Enea and Anchises, by David dall'Apollo and Daphne and the Rape of Proserpine to that of maturity such as busts of Paul V and Scipione Borghese and the group of Truth unveiled by Time . Also the extraordinary concentration of autographs in the hand of Caravaggio which visit in illuminating juxtaposition works Bacchinomalato caliber of youth and the Boy with a Basket of Fruit and evidence of maturity, such as the Madonna of Palafrenieri the St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist; particularly striking about the biographical notes on David with the Head of Goliath, whose severed head is universally recognized as the ultimate portrait of the artist before the tragic premature death. The appearance of the austere but ornate villa of Scipio, whose only concession was the fresco decoration of the loggia at the back painted by Lanfranc in 1624, was completely distraught at the 700 when Marcantonio Borghese gave way to a total renovation that made the seventeenth-century building a real laboratory nascent neoclassical style, an array of the most successful artists and craftsmen of the time expended with generosity in every room of the building is richly decorated plastic-pictorial of extreme refinement that finds its highest total in frescoed vault of the entrance hall, where a complex historical allegory is celebrated in key auspicious birth of the firstborn of Marcantonio. It is to this stage, the creation of the subtle interplay of thematic correspondences between works and frescoes that makes it so unique and balanced relationship container / content that governs the Galleria Borghese. Address: Piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5 HOURS: Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00 (with access to every two hours - last admission 17.00) Closed Monday, December 25, January 1 Tickets: Full price: € 8.50 Reduced: € 5.25 Guided tour: € 5.00 Reservation: € 2.00 Audio guide: € 5.00 Notes: The ticket price includes entrance to the museum (including booking) excluding the integration of current exhibitions. - Supplement for advance purchase online by credit card via the service 060608 € 0.50 Tickets purchased by telephone can be collected both banks of the Museum at the new totem near the ticket machines installed at the plan's services Borghese typing on the touch screen the booking code. Phone: (Mon-Fri 9:00 to 6:00 p.m., Saturdays 9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) - 06 32810 prEN ROMA PASS: The site falls within the Roma Pass circuit Guided tours In the Gallery: * In Italian: 11.10 am - 3:10 p.m. to 5:10 p.m. * In English: hours 9:10 to 11:10 Group reservations fax 0039 06 8555952 The new Art Gallery: Tuesday-Sunday at 16.00 and 17.00 Free tour booking required: € 2.00 Max 18 guests. Secret Gardens: educational visits Free and schools of every grade. Info and reservations 0039 06 39967800 Mon-Fri 9:00 to 17:00 hours, Saturdays 9:00 to 13:30 Website: www.galleriaborghese.it |
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