To kick off the last day of our Caravaggio trip to Rome, we’ll visit the Palazzo Barberini, one of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica’s two sites – the other being Palazzo Corsini, which we visited on Day 1. At the Palazzo Barberini you can see the stark, haunting St Francis in Meditation, the wistful NarcissusContinue reading “Rome Caravaggio Experience Day 3: Palazzo Barberini & Capitoline Museums”
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Rome Caravaggio Experience Day 2: Santa Maria del Popolo & Galleria Borghese
Standing on Piazza del Popolo, a 10-minute walk from the Spanish Steps, is the Basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo. As this is a Caravaggio pilgrimage, we’ll be making a beeline for the Cerasi Chapel, located in the left transept of the basilica, named after Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, a wealthy lawyer and Treasurer-General to theContinue reading “Rome Caravaggio Experience Day 2: Santa Maria del Popolo & Galleria Borghese”
Rome Caravaggio Experience Day 1: Centro Storico & Trastevere
The first leg of the tour will take you around the Centro Storico or historic centre. Start by visiting the delightful Palazzo & Galleria Doria Pamphilj. Behind the rather unprepossessing facade on Via del Corso is one of the city’s most dazzling private art collections.A nice personal touch: the audio-guide is narrated by the PamhilijContinue reading “Rome Caravaggio Experience Day 1: Centro Storico & Trastevere”
Marnie’s Rome Caravaggio Experience
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the original bad boy, the enfant terrible of Italian painting. Born in Milan in 1571, seven years after the death of the other Michelangelo, for whom he was named, he revolutionised religious painting, often shocking the establishment and the Church by using prostitutes as models and depicting everyday, oftenContinue reading “Marnie’s Rome Caravaggio Experience”
Susan Turbie 