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  2. Galleria Borghese - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Borghese Collection - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Villa Borghese gardens - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb - Wikipedia

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    Borghese Gallery's facade in Rome. The first document related to the painting's conservation dates back to January 24, 1611, when the Scipione family recorded a note of a payment for the painting's frame prior to the placement of Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb in the Borghese Collection. [1]

  6. David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Rome) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish - Wikipedia

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    Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (Italian: Predica di sant'Antonio ai pesci; literally, Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fishes) is a 1580–1585 oil-on-canvas painting of Anthony of Padua by Paolo Veronese, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

  8. The best hotels in Rome for location and value for money - AOL

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    Neighbourhood: Villa Borghese Head down to Margutta’s restaurant for some classic Roman cuisine with a modern edge It only opened a few years ago, but this converted palazzo has already gained a ...

  9. Sleeping Hermaphroditus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...