Bronze Statue of King Umberto I
Temple of Aesculapius, Villa Borghese
Shaded Promenade of Villa Borghese
Sunset Among the Stone Pines
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix
Young Sick Bacchus
The Rape of Proserpina
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix
Adoration of the Child (detail)
David
Apollo and Daphne (detail)
David with the Head of Goliath
The Council of the Gods (detail)
The Rape of Proserpina (detail)
Saint Jerome Writing
Apollo and Daphne with The Apotheosis of Romulus
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
Madonna and Child with St Anne (Madonna dei Palafrenieri)
Apollo and Daphne
The Council of the Gods
The Entombment
The Rape of Proserpina
Roman Civilization and the Heroic Virtue of Honor
The Entombment (detail)
Apollo and Daphne
David
The Rape of Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina
Boy with a Basket of Fruit
Temple of Aesculapius
Male Herm with Fruit Basket
Fountain of the Satyrs
Fountain of Venus
Prospettiva Wall, Parco dei Daini
Monument to Francisco de Paula Santander
Parterre with Statues and Tulips
Temple of Aesculapius
Monument to Alexander Pushkin
Grotesque Fountain Mask
Sunset through the Stone Pines
Parterre and Fountain
The Quiet Fountain
Max Amid Roman Echoes
The Apotheosis of Romulus
Truth Unveiled by Time
Daphne’s Transformed Feet
Sacred and Profane Love (detail)
The Rape of Proserpina (detail)
Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Ascanius (detail)
Adoration of the Child
Cerberus (detail)
Young Woman with a Unicorn
Historic Gardens of Villa Borghese
Atlantes and Deities (detail)
Saint Jerome Writing (detail)
Sacred and Profane Love (detail)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
Max aming Berninis and Caravaggios
Apollo and Daphne
Pope Paul V Borghese
Pope Paul V
Max Contemplates Bernini’s Pluto and Proserpina
Sacred and Profane Love
Apollo and Daphne
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
The Entombment (detail)
Nikolai Gogol
Fireplace
The Rape of Proserpina
Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese began c. 1605 as Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s suburban villa and hunting estate, a Baroque landscape where straight avenues, fountains, and classical allusion turned nature into a display of learning and power. Reworked in the 18th–19th cc. and sold to the city, it opened as a public park in 1903, shifting from private spectacle to civic common ground. Its umbrella pines, lakes, and shaded promenades still embody a Roman ideal of culture lived outdoors, where art and retreat share the same air.
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