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Art Story Bernini | Canova
The Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy
The Borghese Gallery in Rome The Borghese Gallery in Rome is one of the most beautiful museums in Italy.
The architecture and sumptuous decoration of the rooms, with marble, porphyry, stucco and frescoes, are enough to delight visitors to this superb palace nestled in one of Rome's largest parks.
This magnificent setting is in perfect harmony with the many masterpieces on display, whether they be paintings by Caravaggio and Titian or sculptures by Bernini and Canova, depicting the Enlevement of Proserpina.
The collection of paintings on display at the Borghese Gallery is a veritable symphony of masterpieces featuring the greatest names:
Six paintings by Caravaggio, a record, but also Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, Canaletto, Rubens, Veronese, Palma the Elder and Palma the Younger, Carpaccio, Andrea del Sarto, Lorenzo di Credi, Lucas Cranach, Bronzino, Lorenzo Lotto, Bassano, Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Giorgione, Bellini Carracci, Cavalier d'Arpino... who could ask for more?
Caravaggio The sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (known as Bernini) are displayed in almost every room on the ground floor and are astonishingly elegant and dynamic, rivalling those of Rodin.
These sculptures are so lifelike that the figures seem to fly off the pedestals.
But these are not the only ones in the Borghese Gallery, which also features beautiful sculptures from Roman antiquity, in particular the astonishing Sleeping Hermafroditus.
The Sleeping Hermafroditus dates from the second century AD and is one of the few known in the world; the Louvre has only a copy made by Bernini.
Sleeping Hermafroditus, Borghese Roman art is obviously in the spotlight with numerous bas-reliefs and sculptures of the gods worshipped by the ancient Romans, gods to whom were added their living gods: their emperors, whose busts in Red porphyry are displayed in many rooms.
The Roman mosaics are also beautiful and interesting, particularly the famous battle scenes featuring portraits of the most famous gladiators of the Roman era.
Not to mention the sculptor Antonio Canova, who gained fame with his beautiful and famous sculpture of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victorious, amply undressed.
At the time, people came from all over Europe to admire it!
Art Story Bernini | Canova
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