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”
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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 