May 17, 2012

Borghese Gallery special openings

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

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 [...]

Florence exhibition, Michelangelo and Da Vinci

‘La scuola del mondo’: disegni di Leonardo e Michelangelo a confronto Casa Buonarotti, Florence, 20th April – 1st August 2011 This ‘School of the world’ exhibition aims to compare and contrast works by Da Vinci and Michelangelo. The pieces on show are all designs, sketches, briefs … the free-drawn inspirations of great works and projects, [...]

Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome

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 [...]

Borghese Gallery Rome, Cranach exhibition

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 [...]