The Galleria Borghese or Borghese Gallery is an art gallery in Rome, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V.
Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St Jerome Writing, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael's Entombment of Christ and works by Peter Paul Rubens and Federico Barocci. The Galleria Borghese includes twenty rooms across two floors. The main floor is mostly devoted to classical antiquities of the 1st–3rd centuries AD including a famous mosaic of gladiators found on the Borghese estate at Torrenova, on the Via Casilina outside Rome, in 1834, and classical and neo-classical sculpture such as the Venus Victrix. Its decorative scheme includes a trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco in the first room, or Salone, by the Sicilian artist Mariano Rossi makes such good use of foreshortening that it appears almost three-dimensional. The museum displays, in addition to Bernini's above mentioned works Proserpine's rape, Apollo and Daphne, David throwing a sling also Roman time wonderful works sleeping Hermaphroditus, as well as the famous Lying Venus by Canova, portraying the beautiful features of Maria Paola Bonaparte. Maybe Caravaggio's best works are displayed in Rome's Borghese gallery: the Madonna of the Grooms, St. Jerome, St. John Baptist, David with Goliath's head. Young man with a fruit basket, the little Bacchus: Borghese gallery in Rome also hosts works by Annibale Carracci, Francesco Albani, Guido Reni, Guercino, Antonello da Messina ("portrait of a man"), Domenichino ("Diana's hunt"), Bronzino ("St. JOhn Baptist").
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