Rome Trip Overview
Your personal and professional guide will meet you at your hotel and accompany you to the
Borghese Gallery. During this 3 hours experience you
will admire Scipione Borghese Collection of works by
Raphael,
Rubens,
Caravaggio,
Canova,
Bernini and many other great artists. The Borghese Gallery, often referred to as the “delight of Rome”, boasts one of the most impressive collections of art ever put together, while
Borghese Gardens is widely considered the most beautiful park in Rome.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Your personal and professional guide will meet you at your hotel and accompany you to the
Borghese Gallery. During this 3 hours experience you
will admire Scipione Borghese Collection of works by
Raphael,
Rubens,
Caravaggio,
Canova,
Bernini and many other great artists. The Borghese Gallery, often referred to as the “delight of Rome”, boasts one of the most impressive collections of art ever put together, while
Borghese Gardens is widely considered the most beautiful park in Rome.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Villa Borghese, P.zzale del Museo Borghese, 00155 Rome Italy
Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 197.7 acres) after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana (“Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill”), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Galleria Borghese, Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5, 00197 Rome Italy
The Galleria Borghese (English: 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 Villa was built 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 Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St Jerome Writing, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael’s Entombment of Christ and works by Peter Paul Rubens and Federico Barocci.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
