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Major Caravaggio exhibition coming to Rome. "One of the most ambitious ever."

A jubilee exhibition on Caravaggio is coming to Rome's Palazzo Barberini. For now, not much is known: all that is known are the dates, March 7 to July 6, 2025, the title(Caravaggio 2025) and the names of the curators, namely Francesca Cappelletti (di...
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Art in the Ludovisi papacy, among the shortest of the seventeenth century. What the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale looks like.

The most monumental altarpiece by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino was commissioned to the Cento painter in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, for the head altar of the north aisle of St. Peter's Basilica, where in 1606 the...
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When art and poetry were twins. What the exhibition "Painting and Poetry" at the Borghese Gallery looks like.

It's hard to pay attention to the base when admiring Bernini'sApollo and Daphne , caught up in that marvel of marble, Apollo's running, Daphne's fingers becoming branches and laurel leaves, Daphne's legs becoming a trunk, the nymph's lightness, Berni...
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Trevi Fountain: extraordinary maintenance completed, start of closed number as well

The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most beloved monuments, is back free of scaffolding after three months of extraordinary maintenance work overseen by the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency. The intervention, included in the PNRR Caput Mund...
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Rome reopens the Passetto di Borgo, the secret corridor that connected the Vatican to Castel Sant'Angelo

In Rome, the Borgo Passetto, the famous fortified passage connecting the Vatican to Castel Sant'Angelo, has been returned to the public: a sort of... Roman Vasarian Corridor, reopened this year exactly like its counterpart in Florence (which is actua...
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Rome rediscovers the Horrea Piperataria: imperial spice warehouses open to the public

A new chapter in the history of ancient Rome opens to the public thanks to the Colosseum Archaeological Park: the Horrea Piperataria, the imperial spice warehouses, become open to visitors for the first time. Located beneath the Basilica of Maxentius...
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Michelangelo's Pieta shines with new iGuzzini lighting in St. Peter's Basilica

A masterpiece of Renaissance art enjoys a new light. We're talking about Michelangelo's Pieta, preserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, one of the most famous sculptural groups in art history, which now benefits from an innovative lighting project ...
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Pietro da Cortona's The Triumph of Divine Providence, a fundamental text of 17th-century art

When, in August 1623, Maffeo Barberini (Florence, 1568 - Rome, 1644) ascended to the papal throne with the name of Urban VIII, many intellectuals, scientists and artists rested their hopes on this learned and refined man, hoping for a cultural renewa...
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