**Update, June 12th – it now looks like the Borghese may again be open on Sundays as of Sunday July 1st 2012. Good news. Still no official announcements, but the effects are already being manifested, most notably that bookings – on Sundays – to visit the Borghese Gallery are currently on hold, frozen. We’ve blocked [...]
Borghese Gallery special openings
March 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Borghese Gallery is ordinarily closed each and every Monday but, until the 9th of April, it will remain open in order (afternoons only) to give visitors a last chance to see the unique exhibition ‘I Borghese e l’antico’ – see our blog post on the event here. Borghese Gallery ticket booking Recommend on Facebook [...]
Rome exhibition – masterpieces from the Louvre at the Borghese
December 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Rome, Borghese Gallery – ‘I Borghese e l’antico’ 7th December 2011 – 9th April 2012 The dates have been moved a few times, but finally this exhibition is about to open. A unique event, on the occasion of Italy’s 150th anniversary of Unification, this exhibition sees more than 60 masterpieces ‘coming home’ to the Borghese [...]
Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
October 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
If you’re in Rome and visiting the Borghese Gallery, do try to leave some time for visiting the gardens there. They form the second largest public park in Rome, covering as they do almost one hundred and fifty acres, much of which was remodelled in the formal English style during the 19th century. The gardens [...]
‘Martedi in Arte’ – free entry to museums
September 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Italy, October 26th, November 30th and December 28th (the ‘Martedi’s’ of the initiative) see free entry to selected museums and galleries across Italy. Note that this is free entry in the evenings only, from 19.00 to 23.00, with special openings accordingly. Amongst the big guns are the Last Supper (good luck with that one!), the [...]
Borghese Gallery Rome, Cranach exhibition
September 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
Borghese Gallery, Rome ‘Lucas Cranach: L’altro Rinascimento’ 15th October 2010 – 11th February 2011 For the first time in Italy an exhibition of works by Lucas Cranach il Vecchio, a leading light, together with Durer, of the 16th century rebirth (the ‘other Renaissance’ of the exhibition title) of German painting, and a close friend of [...]
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