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Official website; Borghese.Gallery – created by Roman experts. Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) Description of the painting. Architecture and gardens on the Villa Borghese or Casino; Reviews of Galleria Borghese; Satellite photo — the Galleria Borghese is the villa in the center of the photograph surrounded by landscaped ...
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 .
Villa Borghese Pinciana or ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"; 1609–1613), also referred to as the Casino Nobile on the site, which presently is the suburban villa hosting the museum known as the Galleria Borghese. Originally commissioned by the rapacious patron of arts, Scipione Borghese, who appears to have played a role in the design.
The statue's finger points out, as if to acknowledge the viewer. The statue in the Galleria Borghese is the most celebrated version of La Zingarella; however, there is another version of the statue by Nicolas Cordier in the Louvre. [5] Visconti described the statue as Diana, detto volgarmente la Zingarella. [6]
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Sculptures in the Borghese Collection (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Collection of the Galleria Borghese" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The mosaics are dated to the first half of the 4th century [1] and are now installed in the Salone of the Galleria Borghese in Rome. [2] They were discovered in 1834 on the Borghese estate at Torrenova, on the Via Casilina outside Rome. [3] Prince Francesco Borghese Aldobrandini requested the excavations be completed. [4]
Art writers noted several elements of the painting as dominant, either visually or thematically. Moir, for example, notes the key role that the contrast between light and shadow plays in the composition: a window placed high on the left allows a ray of light to penetrate the room, illuminating, as it slides over the wall, the boy, the lush fruit basket, the shirt sleeve, the sensual bare ...