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Galleria Borghese • Bernini • Caravaggio • Raphael Santa Maria Della Vittoria • Bernini’s St. Theresa in Ecstasy St. Peter’s Basilica • Bernini’s Baldacchino • Bernini’s Cathedra Petri & Gloria • Michelangelo’s Pieta The Vatican Museum • Raphael’s School of Athens • Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel • Caravaggio’s Entombment • Plus MUCH MORE…
Coliseum Palatine Museum • Michelangelo Exhibition, etc. Pantheon Roman Forum Trajan’s Column Crypt of the Capuchini Piazza Navona Trevi Fountain Spanish Steps
San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane San Luigi dei Francesi • Caravaggio’s Matthews Piazza Del Popolo Santa Maria in Trastevere Frida Kahlo at Scuderie del Quirinale Andy Warhol at Palazzo Cipolla Ostia Antica Castel Sant’Angelo MAXXI & Macro!
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Roma & Il Vaticano
Roma & Il Vaticano
Roma & Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Baldacchino Created: 1623–1634
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Baldacchino Created: 1623–1634
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Baldacchino Created: 1623–1634
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Cathedra Petri Created: 1647–1653
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Gloria Created: 1647–1653
Il Vaticano Bernini’s Gloria Created: 1647–1653
Il Vaticano Michelangelo’s Pieta Created: 1498–1499
Il Vaticano Michelangelo’s Pieta Created: 1498–1499
Il Vaticano Michelangelo’s Pieta Created: 1498–1499
Il Vaticano
Vatican Museum – Spiral Stairs designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932
Il Vaticano Works in the Vatican museums • Several paintings by Caravaggio including the majestic Entombment (1602–1603) • Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of St. Jerome in the Wilderness; • Works by painters Fra Angelico, Giotto, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin, and Titian; • The Raphael Rooms with many works by Raphael and his workshop, including the
masterpiece The School of Athens • Other Raphael masterpieces including "The Transfiguration". • The Niccoline Chapel • The Sistine Chapel, including the Sistine Chapel ceiling. • The Gallery of Maps: topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar
Ignazio Danti of Perugia, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585). It remains the world's largest pictorial geographical study.
• The frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment built for Pope Alexander VI (Borgia).
Il Vaticano Caravaggio’s Entombment Created: 1602–1603
Il Vaticano Da Vinci St. Jerome in the Wilderness Created: 1480
Il Vaticano Raphael The School of Athens Created: 1509-1510
1: Zeno of Citium 2: Epicurus Possibly, the image of two philosophers, who were typically shown in pairs during the Renaissance: Heraclitus, the "weeping" philosopher, and Democritus, the "laughing" philosopher. 3: unknown (believed to be Raphael) 4: Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? 5: Averroes
6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon or Timon? 9: Raphael, Fornarina as a personification of Love or Francesco Maria della Rovere? 10: Aeschines or Xenophon? 11: Parmenides? (Leonardo da Vinci) 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo)
14: Plato(Leonardo da Vinci) (Archimedes) 15: Aristotle (Giuliano da Sangallo) 16: Diogenes of Sinope 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante?) 19: Strabo or Zoroaster? (Baldassare Castiglione) 20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)
Il Vaticano Raphael The School of Athens Created: 1509-1510
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel Ceiling Created: 1508-1512 Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, under the patronage of Pope Julius II.
“Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.” —Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541 In a different climate after the Sack of Rome, he returned and between 1535 and 1541, painted The Last Judgment for Popes Clement VII and Paul III.
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541 Famously, the papal master of ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said (in Vasari’s recount) of The Last Judgment “that it was a very disgraceful thing to have made in so honorable a place all those nude figures showing their nakedness so shamelessly, and that it was a work not for the chapel of a Pope, but for a brothel or tavern.”
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541 Detail of The Last Judgment, depicting Biagio da Cesena as Minos
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541 The genitalia in the fresco were later covered by the artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter").
Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Last Judgment Created: 1535-1541
Il Vaticano
Restoration: Before and After
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Il Vaticano Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel Ceiling Created: 1508-1512
Il Vaticano Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Created: 1535-1541 Eleazar and Mattan - Detail Mattan with wife
Il Vaticano Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Created: 1535-1541 Detail
Il Vaticano Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Created: 1535-1541 The image of God in the act of Creation was painted in a single day, and reflects Michelangelo himself in the act of creating the ceiling. Michelangelo's illustration to his poem shows him painting God.
Il Vaticano Castel Sant’Angelo Construction Started: 135 AD The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome.
Il Vaticano Castel Sant’Angelo Construction: 123 AD - 139 AD It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The Castel was once the tallest building in Rome.
Roma
Roma
Roma The Seven Hills of Rome
Roma The Coliseum or Flavian Amphitheatre Built in 70-80 AD
Roma The Coliseum and Constantine’s Arch
Roma Sestertius of Titus celebrating the inauguration of the Colosseum (minted 80 AD)
Roma Constantine’s Arch Built in 315 CE
Roma Constantine’s Arch Built in 315 CE
Roma In 1605, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V and patron of Bernini, began turning this former vineyard into the most extensive gardens built in Rome since Antiquity.
Roma Galleria Borghese Est. 1903
Roma Caravaggio Saint Jerome c. 1606
Roma Melissa by Dosso Dossi c. 1507
Roma Raphael Deposition c. 1507
Roma Caravaggio St. John the Baptist c. 1610
Roma Caravaggio Madonna, Child and Serpent c. 1605-1606
Roma Caravaggio Boy with a Basket of Fruit c. 1593
Roma Raphael Lady with a Unicorn c. 1505
Roma Caravaggio Bacchus c. 1593
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Self Portrait c. 1623
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Apollo and Daphne c. 1622
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Apollo and Daphne c. 1622
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Apollo and Daphne c. 1622
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Rape of Persephone c. 1621
Roma Gian Lorenzo Bernini Rape of Persephone c. 1621
Roma Pantheon 118-128 CE Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
Roma Pantheon 118-128 CE The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft).
Roma Roman Forum Open 8:30am-4:30pm
Roma The Capitoline Museums The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing on the central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years.
Roma The Capitoline Museums Colossal statue of Constantine 313-324 AD
Roma The Capitoline Museums Colossal statue of Constantine (right hand) 313-324 AD
Roma The Capitoline Museums Bernini Bust of Medusa 1644-1648
Roma The Capitoline Museums Capitoline She-wolf 5th century BC or medieval Bronze
Roma The Capitoline Museums Tiger assaulting a calf 4th century AD
Roma The Capitoline Museums The statue of a mounted rider in the center of the piazza is of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Roma The Capitoline Museums It is a copy, the original being housed on-site in the Capitoline museum. Many Roman statues were destroyed on the orders of Christian Church authorities in the Middle Ages; this statue was preserved in the erroneous belief that it depicted the Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman empire.
Roma Trajan’s Column 113 AD A continuous frieze winds up around the shaft from base to capital. The relief portrays Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the Dacians; the lower half illustrating the first, and the top half illustrating the second.
Roma Trajan’s Column 113 AD A continuous frieze winds up around the shaft from base to capital. The relief portrays Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the Dacians; the lower half illustrating the first, and the top half illustrating the second.
Roma Trajan’s Column 113 AD
Roma Piazza Navona is a city square built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.
Roma Piazza Navona is a city square built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.
Roma Piazza Navona is a city square built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.
Roma Bernini Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) 1651
Roma Bernini Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) 1651
Roma Nicola Salvi Trevi Fountain 1762
Roma San Luigi dei Francesi
Roma Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew 1599–1600
Roma Caravaggio The Inspiration of St. Matthew 1602
Roma Caravaggio The Martyrdom of St. Matthew 1599-1600
Roma Santa Maria della Vittoria
Roma Bernini Ecstasy of St. Theresa 1647-1652
Roma Bernini Ecstasy of St. Theresa 1647-1652
Roma St. Victoria in Santa Maria della Vittoria
Roma Piazza del Popolo For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
Roma Spanish Steps The Spanish Steps are a set of steps climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base, and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, with Trinità dei Monti church at the top.
Roma Spanish Steps They form the widest staircase in Europe.
Roma Santa Maria in Trastevere The first sanctuary was built in 221 and 227 by Pope Callixtus I and later completed by Pope Julius I. The basic floor plan and wall structure of the church date back to the 340s. Completed in 1143.
Roma Santa Maria in Trastevere Pietro Cavallini Mosaic of the Annunciation 1291
Roma Crypt of the Capuchin Monks The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 3,700 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars.
Roma Frida Kahlo exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Wearing a Velvet Dress 1926
Roma Frida Kahlo exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale Frida Kahlo Selfportrait on the Bed or Me and My Doll 1937
Roma Frida Kahlo exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale Frida Kahlo The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xólotl 1937
Roma Frida Kahlo exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait as Tehuana or Diego in My Mind or Thinking of Diego 1937
Roma Andy Warhol exhibition at Palazzo Cipolla Not Frida Kahlo Brillo Soap Pads Box 1964
Roma Andy Warhol exhibition at Palazzo Cipolla Frida Kahlo Shot Light Blue Marilyn 1964
Roma MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts €11 via Guido Reni
Roma MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts Maurizio Cattelan Mother 2000 1999
Roma MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Where is our place
Roma MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma Via Nizza 38, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, Tue-Sun 11:00am-10:00pm, €10
Roma MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma Via Nizza 38, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, Tue-Sun 11:00am-10:00pm, €10
Roma MondoPop Gallery – Closed Sun & Mon, Tuesday 10:30am-7:30pm, Via dei Greci 30
