A Museum Lovers Guide To Rome

You may find scores of beautiful cities in the world, butPiazza del Collegio Romano- which was passed from
you won't find the city like Rome. Rome, you know, isthe Della Rovere family to the Aldobrandinis in 1601 and
cut from different stuff. It has its own tastes ofthen, when Olimpia Aldobrandini married Camillo
romance and art. There are numerous magnificentPamphilj senior in 1647, to the latter. This magnificent
museums and art galleries in the world, but thepalace is that was worked on by the architect
museums and art galleries of Rome have their ownGabriele Valvassori between 1731 and 1734.
genre and grandeur.National Gallery of Ancient Art (Palazzo Barberini, via
Rome is the finest artworks of the world. Created byQuattro Fontana) is your place, if you want to access
Romulus in 753 B.C., the celestial city of Rome is onesome of the finest collections of 13th to 17th century
of the world's richest cities in history and art. The Italianartworks. Located on two sites; the Palazzo Corsini
capital offers an unparalleled collection of museumsand the Palazzo Barberini (one of the grandest
and art galleries that make the city Mecca for estheticpalaces in Rome built in 17 century), the Galleria
connoisseurs. The museums and galleries make RomeNazionale d'Arte Antica features the works by Fra
the city loved and adored by artists. The city offers aAngelico, Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Lotto, Andrea del Sarto,
constellation of museums and galleries that often givesPerugino, Caravaggio, Canaletto and Raphael.
come-hither calls to the artists and connoisseurs.The Gallery of the National Academy of St. Luca
Rome offers you a wide range of museums and art(Piazza dell'Accademia di San Luca) offers you an
galleries including religious museums, archaeologicaleclectic collection of classical works by artists such as
museums, military museums, science museums, ancientRaphael, Canova, van Dyck, Titian, Guercino, il
art museums, modern art museums, etc. etc.Sassoferrato, Reni and Pietro da Cortona. Galleria
Borghese Museum and Gallery (Museum Galleriadell'Accademia di San Luca is one of Rome's most
Borghese), established in 1613 to hold up Cardinalprestigious galleries founded as an art academy in
Scipione borghese's art collection, the Museum Galleria1478.
Borghese features the works by Rubens, Caravaggio,Galleria Colonna is your destination to enjoy the
Raphael, Bernini, Titian, Antonello da Messina andmasterpieces by artists including Lorenzo Monaco,
Canova. Here you can find the most far-famed sculptsBronzino, Ghirlandaio, Salviati, Veronese, Palma il
by G.L.Bernini such as "David", Canova's masterpiece,Vecchio, Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto, Pietro da
"Apollo and Daphne', 'Pluto and Proserpina', Raphael'sCortona, Annibale Carracci, Francesco Albani,
'Deposition', the reclining statue of Pauline Borghese,Guercino, Guido Reni, Carlo Maratta, Gaspard Dughet,
and a rich picture gallery plenty of masterpieces ofCrescenzio Onofri, Girolamo Muziano, and Pompeo
absolute value amogn the others the famous "Danae"Batoni. Reflecting the nobility of the Colonna family, the
by Correggio, Caravaggio's paintings, Titian's "Sacredmagnificent Galleria Colonna is housed the huge
and Profane love."complex of Palazzo Colonna that was constructed in
You can watch the monuments and works of art50 years from 1654 to 1704.
from all the provinces of Rome at the Museum ofThe Modern National Gallery houses offer you the
Roman Civilization (Piazza G. Angelli). Created undermost significant collection of Italian paintings and
the name of Museo dell'Impero Romano in 1927, thesculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring the
museum exhibits a great collection of artworks in itsworks by artists belonging to neo-classicism,
59 rooms, which include the items that were figured inromanticism,Tuscan Macchiaoli impressionism, and the
the Archaeological Exhibition at the Baths of Diocletianmost of the contemporary art movements, the gallery
in 1911, and the models of single-oared warship, anoffers the works by Goya, Géricault, Delacroix,
apartment building in ancient Ostia Antica, and of theBlake, Renoir, Rossetti, Courbet, Van Gogh, Degas,
Colosseum.Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Mondrian, Duchamp, de
The National Museum of Rome - Museo NazionaleChirico, Cara, Miró, Kandinsky and Klimt.
Romano offer you a nice slice from the history ofBesides, you can fine a number Religious Museums in
Rome housed in three different facilities - the Baths ofRome, which include Museum of the Souls of the
Diocletian including the Palazzo Massimo, theDead (Lungotevere Prati), Permanent Exhibition of the
Octagonal Hall, and the Palazzo Altemps. Some of theJewish Community of Rome (Synagogue,
attractions of Rome include a wonderful statue of aLungotevere Cenci), Museum of the Catacombs of St.
Young Girl from Anzio of the first Hellenistic age; threeSebastian (via Appia Antica), Museum and Picture
sarcophagi with representation of the Three Graces; aGallery of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
fragment of a Hebrew sarcophagus figuring the(Piazzale S. Paolo), Museum of St. Pancras (Piazza di
seven-branch candlestick; and the Tomb of GaiusS. Pancrazio, 5.d, Basilica di S. Pancrazio), Franciscan
Sulpicius Platorinus and his family, that was unearthedMuseum (Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini,
during the building of the Tiber embankment betweenCirconvallazione Occidentale 6850, Grande Raccordo
Ponte Sisto and the Farnesina.Anulare km. 65), Museum of the Historical Chamber
The National Museum of Oriental Art (Via Merulana) is(via S. Giovanni Decollato, 22 Church of S. Giovanni
a wonderful museum dedicated to the Oriental art. TheDecollato), Museum of St. John Lateran (Basilica di S.
museum features pottery from the ItalianGiovanni in Laterano), and Museum of St. Vincent and
archaeological excavations in the region of Sistan ofAnastasius (vicolo dei Modelli).
the 3rd millennium B.C., bronze objects from LuristanRome also has plenty of Archaeological Museums that
(Iran), Islamic Art, Chinese, Japanese & Koreaninclude Villa Giulia National Museum (Piazzale di Villa
pottery, and Buddhist bronzes. The items of specialGiulia), Forum Antiquarium (Piazza S. Maria Nuova),
interest include Palmyrena art of the 3rd century, anBarracco Museum (via dei Baullari), Archaeological
Islamic ceramic plate, glazed with epigraphic decorationMuseum Ostia (located at the excavations of ancient
from Eastern Iran, and a bottle in gold and silver withOstia outside Rome), Museum of Etruscan and Italic
scenes of bacchanal from Iran's Sasanide period.Remains & Museum of Plaster Casts (University
You can visit Doria Pamphilj Gallery at Palazzo DoriaCity, Faculty of Letters, Dept. of Historical,
Pamphili, Piazza del Collegio Romano, where you canArchaeological, and Anthropological Sciences of
relish Rome's most distinguished private art collections,Antiquity), Capitoline Museum (Piazza del Campidoglio),
including works by Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael,Centrale Montemartini (Via Ostiense), Museum of the
Velázquez, Lippi, Lotto, Rubens, Guercino, Reni,Walls (Via di Porta S. Sebastiano), Museum of Roman
Parmigianino, Bellini and Brueghel. The Doria PamphiljShips (Fiumicino), etc.
Gallery is housed in the majestic Renaissance palace-