logo

Wednesday 08th of September 2010

Main Menu


Bookmark and Share

Home Museums and galleries
Museums of Rome
Colonna Art Gallery

The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over ruins of an old Roman Serapeum, and has belonged to the prestigious Colonna family for over twenty generations.

 
Doria Pamphilj Gallery

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is a large art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome. It is situated between the Via del Corso and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Piazza del Collegio Romano. Like the palace, it is still privately owned by the princely Roman family Doria Pamphilij.

 
Galleria Borghese

The Borghese Gallery (Italian: Galleria Borghese) in Rome is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, which was begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621).

 
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill

This is one of Rome's most respected private galleries. The Gallery promotes national and international contemporary artists. Galleria Lorcan O'Neill was also one of the first to bring edgy international names to the city - think Tracey Emin, Max Rental, Matvey Levenstein, as well as local talent such as Luigi Ontani and Pietro Ruffo.

 
Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Utime failed: Permission denied in /home/srv/syscp/webs/romepage/romepage.net/plugins/content/plg_imagesized.php on line 241
Keats-Shelley House

Next to the Spanish Steps, the Keats-Shelley House is where John Keats died in February 1821. He'd come to Rome a year earlier, hoping the Italian climate would improve his failing health. Unfortunately it didn't, and he died at the age of 25.

 
Museo Carlo Bilotti

The Orangery was known, in the eighteenth century, as the House of Water Games because of the fountains and nymphaeums found there, and the spectacularly laid out Garden of the Lake which surrounds it. In the richly decorated and furnished rooms the Borghese princes organized parties and fashionable events.

Following the serious damage caused by cannon bombardment in 1849, during the French defence of the papacy against the Roman Republic, the building was freely reconstructed and adapted for growing citrus fruits in winter, losing in the process all of its precious decorations.
 
« StartPrev123NextEnd »

Page 2 of 3

Login

Useful Links

Who's Online

We have 5 guests online

Rome Page. All Rights Reserved!. Valid XHTML and CSS.