The Borghese Gallery in Rome

There are museums that arise from political will, from the cultural project of a sovereign, but there are also museums that are born out of passion, for art, for the beauty of a family or a private individual. A perfect example of this typical of collecting that has produced a museum that is to be considered among the most fascinating in the world is Borghese Gallery. One might not know anything about art history, but if he enters the Borghese Gallery in Rome, he starts wandering through the rooms in front of the sculptures, paintings, frescoes, if he sees the relationship between the interior and the outside, the garden, the sky of Rome and the masterpieces of art, then truly understands everything, because the Gallery has this extraordinary thing, offering at the same time the vast variety of works and styles. It manages to be a symphony of variations and trends. Visiting the Borghese Gallery at its best is possible thanks to a Borghese Gallery and Gardens Guided Tour. Here you can admire the beauty and the extraordinary internal architecture of this magnificent building thanks to the stories of a local guide but also some of the works of one of the greatest artists of all time Gian Lorenzo Bernini, such as the David, the Rape of Proserpina and the Apollo and Daphne. Borghese Gallery is a concentration of history, luxury, art, culture, painting techniques, baroque sculptures. A uniqueness able to amaze and leave anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting it at least once in their life speechless.

Things to know about Borghese Gallery

Borghese Gallery, located in the homonymous Villa Borghese, is one of the most important museums in the world. Built by the Borghese family in the 16th century, it is the ninth most visited Italian site. The Borghese were a large Roman princely family of popes, cardinals, eminent personalities from culture, administration and politics. This is their villa out of town. Here, the Borghese family, and in particular Cardinal Scipione Borghese, collected all the treasures of ancient and modern art that were possible to find. For the history of the Borghese Gallery, Cardinal Scipione played a fundamental role, as a protagonist. Taste, curiosity and quality are the three characteristics that distinguish this museum and the one who made it so. Inside it, each room is a concentrate of styles, each room offers the viewer something in front of which to be amazed, each room almost seems to want to remember an era, a character, an artist with plays of light and colors that they will not other than catching the observer’s eye. From Caravaggio to Bernini, from Perugino to Raffaello, from Botticelli to Ghirlandaio and then Antonio Canova, Tiziano, Rubens, Antonello da Messina and many others. Borghese Gallery is considered one of the largest Italian art collections and you will have the pleasure of visiting and discovering it only if you participate in the aforementioned tour that will allow you to both learn and love art, the villa, the museum and why not also Rome.