Piazza del Campidoglio Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Caffarelli Raphael, Parmigianino, Barocci. Dialectic of the gaze and metaphors of vision. From 02 October 2015 to 10 January 2016 The exhibition starts from the comparison that Francesco Mazzola called Parmigianino and Federico Barocci, artists who lived in different periods among them, were able to establish with Raffaello. Both, for different reasons, were remembered by older sources as heirs dell urbinate; both during his years in Rome they received stimuli that determined the artistic guidelines, directing them to key points of the research raffaellesche more experimental. This research found exercising graphic broadly intended outcomes of highlevel conceptual and aesthetic. The exhibition, therefore, will select in particular, though not exclusively, drawings and prints, along with some paintings and ancient sculpture FOOD Via Guido Reni, 4 In the year of EXPO in Milan, the exhibition Food is intended as an exploration of architectural issues associated with the storing, distribution, consumption and disposal of food and raw materials, stimulating debate over the primary question of the space and the time we inhabit. Over 50 works by different artists and architects that, in a presentation that ranges from the dimension of the human body to that of the planet, from the kitchen to the home, from the city to the region and the world, tackle the global political, social, urban and economic effects that the production, distribution, consumption and disposal of food have on communities and territories.
Galleria Borghese Piazzale Museo Borghese, 5 The original sculptures and paintings in the Borghese Gallery date back to Cardinal Scipione's collection, the son of Ortensia Borghese - Paolo V's sister - and of Francesco Caffarelli, though subsequent events over the next three centuries entailing both losses and acquisition have left their mark. Cardinal Scipion was drawn to any works of ancient, Renaissance and contemporary art which might re-evoke a new golden age. He was not particularly interested in medieval art, but passionately sought to acquire antique sculpture. But Cardinal Scipione was so ambitious that he promoted the creation of new sculptures and especially marble groups to rival antique works. The statue of Pauline Bonaparte, executed by Canova between 1805 and 1808, has been in the villa since 1838. In 1807, Camillo Borghese sold Napoleon 154 statues, 160 busts, 170 basreliefs, 30 columns and various vases, which constitue the Borghese Collection in the Louvre. But already by the 1830s these gaps seem to have been filled by new finds from recent excavations and works recuperated from the cellars and various other Borghese residences. Cardinal Scipione's collection of paintings was remarkable and was poetically described as early as 1613 by Scipione Francucci. In 1607, the Pope gave the Cardinal 107 paintings which had been confiscated from the painter Giuseppe Cesari, called the Cavalier d'arpino. In the following year, Raphael's Deposition was secretely removed from the Baglioni Chapel in the church of S.Francesco in Perugia and transported to Rome. It was given to the Cardinal Scipione through a papal motu proprio. In 1682, part of Olimpia Aldobrandini's inheritance entered the Borghese collection; it included works from the collections of Cardinal Salviati and Lucrezia d'este. In 1827 Prince Camillo bought Correggios' celebrated Danäe in Paris.
Palazzo Barberini Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 Commissioned to celebrate the Barberini family s rise to papal power, Palazzo Barberini is a sumptuous baroque palace that impresses even before you go inside and start on the breathtaking art. Many highprofile architects worked on it, including rivals Bernini and Borromini: the former contributed a large squared staircase, the latter a helicoidal one. Amid the masterpieces, don t miss Pietro da Cortona s Il Trionfo della Divina Provvidenza (Triumph of Divine Providence; 1632 39), the most spectacular of the palazzo s ceiling frescoes in the 1st-floor main salon. Other must-sees include Hans Holbein s famous portrait of a pugnacious Henry VIII (c 1540), Filippo Lippi s luminous Annunciazione e due devoti (Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors) and Raphael s La Fornarina (The Baker s Girl), a portrait of his mistress who worked in a bakery in Trastevere. Works by Caravaggio include San Francesco d Assisi in meditazione (St Francis in Meditation), Narciso (Narcissus; 1571 1610) and the mesmerisingly horrific Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith Beheading Holophernes; c 1597 1600). MACRO - Via Nizza, 138 The MACRO - Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art - came into existence due to the reorganisation of the structures on the Capitoline devoted to the promotion of contemporary art. It is spread over two sites. The first is the old Peroni factory, which, until 1971, was in active production for the Peroni Beer Society. The other site is split across two pavilions in the building complex of the old slaughterhouse in Testaccio, which was built between 1888 and 1891 to a design by the architect Gioacchino Erosch.
Galleria Spada In Piazza Capo di Ferro, near Piazza Farnese and Campo de Fiori, Borromini s Prospective Gallery is waiting to be admired in Palazzo Spada. Created between 1652 and 1653, the gallery stands out as a magnificent play on perspective, a prominent feature of Baroque art. The 9 metre long gallery in fact produces a startling perspective, deceiving the onlooker whose gaze stretchers far deeper than its actual length. The effect is produced by a number of factors such as the rising floor, the converging walls and the descending ceiling, while the lateral columns gradually become smaller towards the backdrop. Having enjoyed the illusion offered by Borromini, Palazzo Spada now begs a visit whose rooms are filled with the works from Cardinal Bernardino Spada s private collection which includes a vast array of paintings, ancient sculptures, precious furnishings and furniture. It is a rather special visit to one of Rome s better known areas. Museums of Villa Torlonia - Via Nomentana, 70 The park of the Villa Torlonia contains two museums: the Casino Nobile and the Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls). The Casino Nobile owes its appearance to the work of Giuseppe Valadier, in about 1802, and, from 1835-1840, that of Giovan Battista Caretti who added the facade s majestic porch. Many painters worked on the decoration, among them Podesti and Coghetti, as well as sculptors and plasterers of the schools of Thorvaldsen and Canova The Casina delle Civette is outstanding in its originality. It was planned in 1839 by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli as a Swiss Cabin; in the early Twentieth Century it was transformed into a ecletic cottage, the residence of Prince Torlonia. Its name comes from the recurrent use of owls as an inspiration for the decorative scheme.
Treausures of Imperial China Via del Plebiscito 118 The masterpieces of the Henan Provincial Museum, one of the largest of the People's Republic of China - will tell of the passage from the Han Dynasty when today s China began to take shape to the Golden Age of the Tang Dynasty (581 AD 907 AD)... More than 100 pieces will be displayed, including a funerary robe with 2,000 jade listels woven with gold threads, to attest to the extraordinary prosperity and cultural openness of the Tang era, when the capital of the Empire was today's Xi'an Chiostro del Bramante Via della Pace James Tissot Jacques Joseph Tissot, Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible.