Borghese Gallery
Tour includes: Overview of the Villa Borghese and gardens (former residence of Cardinal Scipione Borghese), a privately guided tour of the largest collection of sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini including his Apollo and Daphne, and works by Canova, Caravaggio, and Titian.
Prices
To confirm your 'Borghese Gallery' booking, click Check Availability below and pay a 50 Euro deposit per person. Balance payment details will be sent with your confirmation e-mail.
1 person: 195 Euro; 2 persons: 235 Euro; 3 persons: 275 Euro; 4 persons: 315 Euro; 5 persons: 355 Euro; 6 persons: 395 Euro; 7 persons: 435 Euro; 8 persons: 475 Euro; 9 persons: 515 Euro; 10 persons: 555 Euro; 11 persons: 595 Euro; 12 persons: 635 Euro; 13 persons: 675 Euro; 14 persons: 715 Euro; 15 persons: 755 Euro; 16-50 persons: + 40 Euro per person.
Tour Duration / Availability
Approximately two (2) hours on Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun excluding religious holidays.
Borghese Gallery / Meeting Point
Ticket office at the Borghese Gallery Museum at 09:00 AM or 15:00 PM. Please let us know if you would like to take this tour at a particular time of day. Villa Borghese is easy to reach by bus. Alternatively, the cost of a taxi will be approximately €6 from anywhere in Rome city centre. Please arrive no later than fifteen (15) minutes before tour start time. If you would prefer your guide to meet you at your hotel, please specify this when you book.
Overview
The Borghese Gallery is one of Europe finest art collections, housed in an elegant suburban villa built for the Cardinal Scipione Borghese at the beginning of the 16th century. Many of its ceilings have some of the most remarkable frescoes of the late 1700’s perfectly preserved. This gallery is sure to impress you, with paintings of the masters Raphael with his touching Deposition from the cross, Titian’s mastepiece in pure venetian style of the Sacred and Profane Love , and Caravaggio, a controversial but ingenius and innovative 17th century painter with his unique use of “chiaroscuro” (darkness and light) and profound subjects such as David With The Head of Goliath. Scipione was an important patron of the arts and sought to acquire ancient sculptures which you will admire inside the Villa, but above all else he was the first patron in Rome of the young Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the genius of the Baroque who mastered the ability to fight gravity and win. You will experience the power, courage and emotion of Bernini’s David, the fear emanating from the young Prosperina in the Rape of Prosperina, and the extreme desperation of the Apollo an Daphne, when Daphne is caught in the extraordinary moment just as her flesh transforms into a tree while escaping from Apollo’s grasp. The visit will culminate with a tribute to the grace ond smoothness of the marble used in the sculpture of Paolina Borghese by Antonio Canova, a sophisticated work of Napoleon’s sister made for her husband, a member of the Borghese family.
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