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The Galleria Borghese (Italian for '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 Borghese Collection is a collection of Roman sculptures, old masters and modern art collected by the Roman Borghese family, especially Cardinal Scipione Borghese, from the 17th century on. It includes major collections of Caravaggio , Raphael , and Titian , and of ancient Roman art .
Madonna with Child between Saints Flavian and Onuphrius is an oil-on-panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed and dated 1508, now in the Borghese Gallery, in Rome.. The painting was executed in the same year of the Recanati Polyptych, when Lotto moved to Rome (although it is not known if he had already painted it before leaving the Marche).
Villa Borghese is a landscape garden 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 .
Palazzo Borghese was the original seat of the family's art collection, with works by Raphael, Titian and many others, transferred in 1891 to the Galleria Borghese in Villa Borghese. The balcony scene in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet was filmed not at this Palazzo Borghese but at Palazzo Borghese in Artena outside Rome.
Whether or not the dating is accurate, the work is believed to have originated from Caravaggio's late Roman period, [6] which ended with the painter's exile to Malta in 1606. [7] That Saint Jerome Writing is the work of Caravaggio is sometimes brought into question, as it was attributed to Jusepe de Ribera in the Borghese inventories from 1700 ...
The "Borghese Hermaphrodite" was later sold to the occupying French and was moved to The Louvre, where it is on display. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (working c. 155 BC); [ 1 ] the original bronze was mentioned ...
David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio.It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. [1] The painting, which was in the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese [a] in 1650, [3] has been dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609–1610, with more recent scholars tending towards the former.
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