Caravaggio, Galleria Borghese
Velasquez, Galleria Doria Pamphilj
Raphael, Palazzo Barberini
Polykleitos, Musei Capitolini
Ludovisi Throne, Palazzo Altemps
Leonardo, Vatican Museum, Pinacoteca
Caravaggio. San Agostino
Caravaggio, San Luigi dei Francesi
Caravaggio, S. Maria del Popolo
Galleria Borghese
Villa Borghese, Piazza
Scipione Borghese 5. Tel.06 32810 Online bookings: www.ticketeria.it.
Tues-Sun. 8.30-19.30. Tickets are sold for 2-hour visits, odd hours, booking is mandatory. Sculpture
by Canova, Bernini. Paintings: many Caravaggios, Raphael, Giotto, Titian, Rubens, Correggio. €
8.50
Galleria
Comunale d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Via Francesco Crispi 24. Tel. 06 4742848. Tues-Sat
9-19, Sun 9-14. A former Carmelite convent near the Piazza di Spagna. Rodin, Morandi, De Pisis, De Chirico, Carrà, Fazzini, Mafai, Manzù, Medardo Rosso, Guttuso, Scipione. € 2.58
Galleria Doria Pamphilj - Piazza del Collegio Romano 1A. Tel. 06 6797323. Fri-Wed 10-17, closed Aug. 15. Tintoretto, Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guercino, Bernini, Parmigianino, Memling, Brueghel, Velasquez. € 9
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica - Palazzo Barberini - Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13. Tel. 06 4814591, bookings 06 32810. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Fra Angelico, Raphael's La Fornarina, Tiepolo, Holbein, Poussin. € 5
Galleria
Nazionale d'Arte Antica - Palazzo Corsini
Via
della Lungara 10. Tel. 06 68802323. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Caravaggio, Guercino, Rubens,
16C Dutch and Flemish paintings. € 4
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna
Viale delle Belle Arti 131. Tel. 06 322981. Tues-Sun
8.30-19.30. Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carrà, De Chirico, De Pisis, Donghi, Guttuso, Fontana, Burri, Mastroianni, Pomodoro, Scipione, Twombly, Medardo Rosso, Rodin, Fazzini, Cézanne, van
Gogh. Excellent bookstore.
Exhibitions and Gallery € 9, Gallery € 6.50
Galleria
Spada
Piazza
Capo di Ferro 13. near Palazzo Farnese. Tel. (06) 6832409. Bookings Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Borromini, Orazio Gentileschi, Guercino, Reni, Titian. € 5
Giorgio de
Chirico House-Museum
31 Piazza
di Spagna. Tel 066796546. Tues-Sat 10-10.45, 11.30-12.15. Situated
in the apartment where Giorgio De Chirico lived, with many
of De Chirico's late paintings. € 5
Museo Barracco - Palazzo
Piccola Farnesina
Corso Vittorio Emanuele
II, 166/a. Tel. 06 68806848. Tues-Sun 9-19. Building attributed
to Antonio
da Sangallo the Younger. Rare and diverse collection of classical Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and
Etruscan sculpture. € 3
Musei Capitolini - Piazza del Campidoglio
Tues-Sun 9-20. Reservations Tel.
06 39967800. Piazza by Michelangelo. 2 museums
on either side of the piazza. Classical
Greek, Roman, Etruscan sculpture; She-Wolf (Etruscan, 6C BC); Pinacoteca: Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Veronese, Velasquez, Lotto.
€ 6.50.
Museo Nazionale Romano cumulative ticket € 7
Baths
of Diocletian
Via E. de Nicola 78, 44. Tues-Sun
9-19.45, € 5. 306 AD. Antique Greek and
Roman sculpture, copies from Praxiteles, Myron, Lysippus.
Palazzo
Altemps
Piazza S. Apollinare, 44. Tel. 06 6833759. Tues-Sun
9-19.45. Ludovisi Throne (Birth
of Aphrodite). € 5.
Palazzo Massimo
Largo di Villa Peretti, 1. Tues-Sun 9-19.45, Tel 06 48903500. Daughter of
Niobe, Discus Thrower
after Myron, and the Venus
of Cyrene (soon to be returned to Libya). Roman fresco paintings. € 6.
Planetario (Octagonal Hall)
via Romita, 9-13; 15-18. Lyceum Apollo
(from Praxiteles) € 6.
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa
Giulia
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9.
Tel. 06 3201951. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Etruscan bronze and clay
sculpture, Greek and Etruscan vase paintings from Etruscan sites. € 4
MUSEI VATICANI - Vatican
Museums
Info,
Tel. 06 69884947. Hours Mon-Sat entrance 9 -16.00, closes at 18.00; closed Sunday and holidays (summer 2009: May 1 and 21, June 11and 29, August 15), except
last Sunday of month for free admission. Long lines but they move fast. € 14, reduced ticket for children between 6 and 18 years of age and students between 19 and 26 years of age with student identity document, € 8
Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel): north and south walls - Perugino, Botticelli, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo. Vault, Last Judgment (1536- 1541) and ceiling (1508 - 1512) by Michelangelo.
Pinacoteca (Painting Gallery): includes paintings by Giotto, Leonardo, Titian, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Raphael and Caravaggio's Deposition.
Pio-Clementino Museum: Early Christian, Classical Greek and Roman sculpture, including the Belvedere Torso (1C BC), Laocoön, Apollo (1-2C BC), Hermes (2C Roman), Sleeping Ariadne, Athlete (1C) from original by Lysippus.
Etruscan Museum: bronze Mars from Todi (5C BC), excellent collection of Greek and Etruscan vase paintings and sculpture. Also, Egyptian Museum.
Raphael Stanze: rooms painted by Perugino and Raphael.
Chapel of Nicholas V painted by Fra Angelico.
Gregorian Museum of Profane Art: Sculpture - Roman copies of Greek originals, sculptures of republican and early imperial periods, sarcophagi.
Villa Farnesina, Via d. Lungara 230. Mon-Sat 9-13. Built in 1508. Loggia of the Galatea and Cupid and Psyche of Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo. € 5
Pantheon - 9 AM - 1 hour before sunset. Founded by Agrippa in 27 BC and rebuilt (AD 117-125) by Hadrian, converted into a church in the 7C. The dome's diameter equals its height, the largest dome until Brunelleschi's at the Florence Cathedral of 1420-36. The curve of the floor and the circular space create an illusion of vastness. In a side chapel is the tomb of Raphael.
Colosseum - 8:30 am to one hour before sunset. € 8 cumulative ticket Colosseum, Palatino. L'anfiteatro Flavio, inaugurated in 80 CE.
Terme di Caracalla - Baths of Caracalla, Viale Terme di Caracalla, 52. 9-19.30, € 6. One of the largest baths of antiquity, inaugurated 216 CE.
Foro Romano - 9-19.30, € 8. Since the foundation of Rome, 754-753 BC.
Domus Aurea - Via della Domus Aurea in the Giardini di Colle Oppio, north of the Colosseum. House of princes, burned in 64 CE. Wed-Mon 9-19.45. € 5, reservation: tel. 06 39967700
Generally are open 7-19, closed 12-15:30 or 17.
San Clemente - Piazza S. Clemente. 9-12, 1530-18. Lower Church from 1C. Built over a 3C Mithraic temple. 9-11C frescoes. Upper Church, 12C mosaics, frescoes over left aisle by Masolino, and probably Masaccio.
S. Maria in Trastevere - Piazza di S. M. in Trastevere. Closed 12:45-15. Built 337-352. Mosaics of 12C and Pietro Cavallini, Roman friezes, Romanesque campanile.
S. Maria Maggiore - Piazza di S. M. Maggiore. 7-20. Basilica built in 431. 5C mosaics.
S. Maria Sopra Minerva - Piazza della Minerva. Closed 12-4 PM. Michelangelo's Risen Christ, frescoes by Fillipino Lippi.
S. Maria della Vittoria - Via XX Settembre. Bernini: Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
St. Pietro - (at the Vatican): Dome and Pietà by Michelangelo; Canova, Bernini.
San Pietro in Vincoli - Piazza S. Pietro in Vincoli. Closed 12-4 PM. Michelangelo's Tomb of Julius II, Moses.
Sant'Agostino - Piazza di Sant'Agostino. The Madonna of Loreto.
San Luigi dei Francesi - Piazza di S. Luigi dei Francesi. Life of St. Matthew.
S. Maria del Popolo - Piazza del Popolo. Closed 12-4 pm. Conversion of St. Paul and Martyrdom of St. Peter; frescoes by Pinturicchio.
Most people can only see two museums and some churches in one day. We suggest that you stay over or plan other trips on your own to Rome during the summer. You can travel around in Rome on the Metro. In August, Rome is hot, but not crowded. Most museums are closed Mondays. Some museums offer discounts to seniors and people aged under 25. We also recommend that you are able to have your shoulders and thighs covered for the trips. There are actually guards who check your appearance at the entrance to the Vatican and certain churches. Remember, churches are not museums.
Belvedere torso, Pio-Clementino Museum
Other sources for museums in Rome; Comune di Roma; Rome by Thais.it, Rome Guide, Romebuddy.com, ActivItaly.it, nyceRome.com, Fodors.com, Ministry for the Cultural Heritage, Romecity.it, Chiama Roma. ANSA Arts guide: exhibits in Italy
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel
Aldobrandini wedding, Vatican Museum
Mosaic, Musei Capitolini
Caravaggio - Scuderie del Quirinale - 20 February - 13 June 2010. The exhibition will include many of Caravaggio's most representative works, including the Bacchus from Florence's Uffizi Gallery, the David With the Head of Goliath from the Borghese Gallery in Rome, the Musicians from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Lute Player from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Amor Vincit Omnia from the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, and numerous other masterpieces from many of the most important museums in Italy and around the world. The project, designed to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the great artist's death has the patronage of the President of the Republic.
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