He studied at Accademia Clementina of Bologna and, thanks to his first patron, count Carlo Filippo Aldovrandi Marescotti, he became a fond collector of archaeological pieces, medals and books. His ...

Location: Church of San Filippo Neri Address: Via Maria Vittoria 5 E-Mail: [email protected] Phone#: 011 5063044 Opening: Working days 8am-noon and 5.30pm-7pm Sunday and Public Holidays ...

Baciccia created this enormous fresco following the model of one painted years earlier at the Chiesa del Gesù, depicting the Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1685). Together with the other fresco, it ...

Palazzo van Axel is a magnificent Gothic building that overlooks the most beautiful Church in Venice, the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli by the architect Pietro Lombardo. The Palace was built ...

Location: National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography Luigi Pigorini Address: Piazzale Guglielmo Marconi 14 Phone#: 06 549521 Booking phone#: 06 5917319 Opening: Tue. Wed. Thur. from 9am to 7pm. Mon ...

The figures in this painting by Rosso Fiorentino are elongated and stiff. The faces are expressive and somewhat frantic. Several of the figures are shown in complicated twisting positions. This style ...

Designed by the great florentine artist, Michelangelo at the age of 87, two years before his death, the work was carried out by the architect himself as was often the case (the Dome of Saint Peter's ...

Location: Palazzo della Cancelleria Address: Piazza della Cancelleria, 1 Visit lasts: 1 hour (about) Services: Built between 1485 and 1513, perhaps by Leon Battista Alberti, it was commissioned by ...

Location: Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II Visit lasts: 1 hour (about) Services: One of the roman masterpieces of Baldassarre Peruzzi, built in 1532, renovating the ...

Roma - La nuova stagione del Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, a quindici anni dalla fondazione, si apre con un ...

Sarà una mostra di portata storica quella che il prossimo autunno condurrà a Roma, nella sede delle Scuderie del Quirinale, ...

Curatori: Da un'idea di Fabrizio Lava, in collaborazione con Vittoria Bazzan, Monica Gasparini, Luca Guzzo, Francesca Nicoli, ...