The book is the new guide to the Galleria Borghese: one of the world’s most extraordinary art collections.
By far one of the most surprising museum sites, the Borghese Gallery is a ‘villa of delights’ designed, following the example of the nearby Villa Medici, to house the prestigious collection that visitors still admire today presented in its twenty rooms.
With the accession to the papal throne of Paul V Borghese (1605-1621), his ‘cardinal nephew’ Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577-1633) issued numerous architectural commissions, at the same time initiating a systematic acquisition of artworks that would make his collection one of the largest of the time.
Thanks partly to Scipione’s legendary unscrupulousness and power, authentic masterpieces are exhibited in the Gallery, including works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Agnolo Bronzino, Antonio Canova, Caravaggio, Raphael, Perugino, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonello da Messina, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Annibale Carracci, Pieter Paul Rubens, Giovanni Bellini and Titian.
The Borghese Gallery has the most important collection of sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and canvases by Caravaggio, together with numerous valuable works of ancient art including sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics. The collection is presented in all its magnificence by the guide consisting of short and exhaustive texts richly illustrated.
English edition. Translation by Mark Eaton and Susan Ann White for Scriptum, Rome.
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