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
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)
Fireplace
The Rape of Proserpina
Borghese GalleryGalleria Borghese
Borghese Gallery began as Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s suburban villa and private museum, built c. 1613–20 to make collecting a language of family ambition in papal Rome. Frescoed rooms and carefully staged sculpture were conceived around the artworks, so Bernini’s marble dramas and Caravaggio’s charged realism still read as part of the architecture that contains them. In Villa Borghese’s parkland, it remains a rare, almost intact portrait of Baroque patronage as lived space.
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