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”
Luc’s Guide to Paris & the Romantics
When I say Paris is the Romantic capital of the world, I’m not talking about picture-postcard clichés from American films or those cheesy black-and-white shots of couples kissing by the Eiffel tower you see in souvenir shops and the bouquinistes’ stalls along the Seine: we’re talking Romanticism with a capital R, the artistic, literary, musical, andContinue reading “Luc’s Guide to Paris & the Romantics”
Susan Turbie 