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...Until the end of May, you can admire more than 30 of them in a spectacular dialogue with another master of his own era, the early Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini....
...Schostal, on Via della Fontanella di Borghese, is one of those classic places where tutta Roma bene take their sons and daughters for shirts, socks and most of all, pyjamas....
...When it comes to galleries and museums, there’s no shortage of choice in Rome, but the Galleria Borghese, located in the splendid Villa Borghese park, never fails to amaze....
...Francesco De Lorenzo, an Italian government minister, was arrested as he was leaving the restaurant during the Tangentopoli scandal of the early 1990s that resulted in the collapse of the postwar Italian...
...I know the Villa Borghese is beautiful, but the Villa Pamphili is a real park.”...
...Enveloped in soft shadows, “Portrait of a Man”, the Borghese’s monumental youth in a puffed-out black pleated coat, head suggestively slanting, has one delicately rendered hand resting on a tiny skull and...
...“He’s a very professional person with a sense of institutional aplomb,” said Lorenzo Fioramonti, a Five Star lawmaker....
...Lotto for his “Madonna with Child” (from the Borghese)....
...(Existing incumbents had to reapply for their jobs; only one, Anna Coliva of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, was rehired.)...
...Ciampini When the heat gets to you and all the frescoes start to meld into one fuzzy image, head to Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina, not far from the Spanish Steps....
...White marble Julius Caesar might have stepped on, the smooth stones chiselled by Michelangelo and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, even the workman-like, solid red stones that prop up many of the more modern buildings...
...Medici There’s a cachet about Renaissance art that seems irresistible to the smaller art museums; nothing conveys clout more than an exhibition of Italian masters, hence the collection from the Villa Borghese...
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