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Rome Walking Tour

giovedì, giugno 17th, 2010

Here are some tips to take a fun Rome Walking Tour: start your tour from Piazza Venezia, at the end of Via del Corso, and admire the towering monument of Vittoriano, dedicated to the first king of Italy Victor Emmanuel II. The monument, built from 1911 and 1935, is also called Altar of the Fatherland.

Behind the Vittoriano is the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar of Heavens, with its long staircase. Italian famous football player Francesco Totti and his wife Ilary Blasi chose this church for their wedding. Next to the church is the Piazza del Campidoglio, designed by Michelangelo. Three palaces overlook the square and houses the Capitoline Museums, if you want to visit them keep in mind the opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9.00 a.m – 8.00 p.m.

End your Rome walking tour strolling along Via dei Fori Imperiali, where finally you will reach the Colosseum, the most impressive monument in the city and symbol of the ancient grandeur of the capital of Roman Empire.

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De Chirico Exhibition in Rome

lunedì, giugno 7th, 2010

Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico founded the Metaphysical Art Movement one hundred years ago, and today Rome celebrate the anniversary with an exhibition in his honour.

At the beginning of the 19th century, De Chirico developed his original style focusing on the architecture of mediterranean cities, which he painted in an unrealistic perspective characterized by the absence of human beings.
The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon and The Enigma of the Oracle are among his earliest and most significant artworks.
As it can be gathered from the title, “Nature according the Chirico” focuses on the concept of nature from De Chirico point of view, and aims to represent the many ways he conceived and transfigured nature, whether in visionary urban landscapes or fixed geometric mannequins.

On display are over 120 paintings, on loan from major public and private museums across the globe. They have been carefully selected and arranged in seven theme-based itineraries.
The exhibition is curated by art critic Achille Bonito Oliva, and will run until the 11th of July, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

For further information, please visit the official website: http://english.palazzoesposizioni.it/mediacenter/FE/home.aspx

Opening Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday, Saturday: 10:00 am – 10:30 pm
Closed on Monday
Full price: € 12,50
Concessions: € 10,00

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Rome Guide: Capitoline Museums

domenica, maggio 30th, 2010


The Capitoline Museums are a set of archaeological museums housed in three Palaces overlooking Piazza del Campidoglio, in Rome. The Palaces are: Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo Nuovo, built in different centuries but each according to Michelangelo Buonarroti’s designs, who conceived an overall plan for the Square.

Inaugurated in 1734, the Capitoline Museums were the first museums in the world to be opened to the public.

The most famous work contained in the Museums is the equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius built in the 2nd century AD, on display in the Palazzo Nuovo. In the centre of the square there is also a replica made in 1981. In the same palace are the Dying Gaul, that is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture, famous for its extremely expressive pathos, and the Discobolus, a marble statue depicting a discus thrower, copy of the lost original Greek bronze.

In the Palazzo dei Conservatori you may admire a famous Caravaggio’s painting: San Giovanni Battista and, most importantly, the Lupa Capitolina, a bronze she-wolf in the act of nursing Romulus and Remus, which is the symbol of Rome.

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Caravaggio Exhibition in Rome

mercoledì, maggio 5th, 2010

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1610, Rome hosts a collection of his major paintings in the exhibition that takes his name “Caravaggio”, on view at the Scuderie del Quirinale from February the 20th to June the 13th.

The artworks spans Caravaggio 18-year career, but rather than put in chronological order, they have been arranged in a theme-based route. There are only authenticated works, historically credited by the hand of Caravaggio, and all dubious attributions ascribed to his school have been excluded.

The exhibition includes absolute masterpieces from all over the world: Amor vincit Omnia from Berlin, The Musicians from New York, The Lute Player from St. Petersburg, Baccus from Florence, Supper at Emmaus from London, and David with the head of Goliath from Rome are among Caravaggio most representative works.

The exhibition is held under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, and organized jointly by Palaexpo and MondoMostre, in cooperation with the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.

Hours: Sunday to Thursday from 10.00am to 08.00pm, Friday and Saturday until 10.30pm. Admission is allowed up to one hour before closing.

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Rome Guide: Borghese Gallery

lunedì, aprile 26th, 2010

The Borghese Gallery is an art gallery in Rome situated in Villa Borghese, surrounded by the homonyn park. Cardinal Scipione Borghese began the collection over four centuries ago, when he ordered the construction of the Villa, which still is one of the most sumptuous in Rome.

The Gallery has twenty rooms across two floors and it is home to a large and superb collection of works belonging to modern art and ancient Roman art, among which Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael, Canova and Bernini are the most representative authors.

The collection includes major paintings such as Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of fruit” and “St Jerome”, Titian’s “Sacred and Profane Love“, and “Entombemt of Christ” by Raphael. The most notable sculptures are Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne” and Canova’s “Venus Victrix”.

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The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

giovedì, aprile 8th, 2010

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is the greatest Italian collection of modern art. It is located in Rome, in Via delle Belle Arti 113.

In front of the main entrance you can admire the immense green area of Villa Borghese, accessible by a long staircase, while on the right there is the Bioparco, one of the oldest zoos in Europe.

The Gallery houses a large collection of works of the 19th and 20th century, for a total of over 1000 paintings and sculputers, arranged in about 55 rooms.
The works belong to several artistic periods: from expressionism, cubism, futurism, to abstractionism and neo-plasticism.

They are mainly by Italian artists, among which Canova, Fattori, Ciardi, Corcos, Balla, De Chirico, De Pisis and Guttuso stand out.
There are also many notable works by foreign artists, such as Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Klimt, Braque, Kandinskij, Mirò and Pollock. It takes at least two hours to tour all the museum, but you can have a rest in the cafè adjoining the Gallery, and take a seat at one of the tables in the shade of surrounding trees.

Thanks to its central position, the Gallery can be a good starting point to a daily tour of Rome (i would suggest to include in the daily tour Villa Borghese or Bioparco).

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