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Museums in Rome
Christian Museum (of the Vatican Museum)
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Follow the Vatican City's wall to the museums' entrance.
Open from Monday to Saturday, from 8.45 am to 1 pm. In summer and at Easter, open Monday to Friday to 4.45 pm and Saturday to 1.45 pm. Open on the last Sunday of each month from 9 am to 2 pm. Free entry but long queues.
This museum contains articles found in the catacombs and in the early-Christian basilicas.
A typical testimoniance of first Christian art.
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Vatican Museums
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Open from Monday to Saturday, from 8.45 am to 1 pm. In summer and at Easter, open Monday to Friday until 4.45 pm and Saturday until 1.45 pm. Price: L15,000; L8,000 for students. Open on the last Sunday of each month from 9 am to 1 pm. Free entry but long queues. The Vatican Museum contains an incredible collection of art and treasures accumulated by the popes. You should consider going twice to the Vatican Museums, because one visit (of about three hours) will not be enough to appreciate the full value of the collections.
We also advise you rent the tapes found at the entrance of the museum. Although you might find it a bit expensive, it provides interesting information, is spoken clearly, ...
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Spada Gallery
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Private Collections of Royal Families
Open from 9 am to 2 pm. Sunday until 1 pm. Monday closed.
Galleria Spada contains the art collection of Cardinal Spada and his family (Roman aristocracy of the 17th century). Interested in bambocciades, the cardinal was the protector of Guerchini and Guido Reni, two artists painting in this particular style. A bambocciades stands for realistic painting, which was introduced to Rome around 1630 by Pieter Van Laer, also called "il Bamboccio" (chubby child) because of his deformed face. ...
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Capitoline Museums
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The overall layout of the collection was altered in the second half of the XVI century, when the museum acquired an important group of sculptures following Pope Pius V's decision to rid the Vatican of "pagan" images: notable works of art increased the collections thereby adding an aesthetic dimension to their hitherto generally historical nature.
With the building of the Palazzo Nuovo on the other side of the square it became possible from 1654 onwards to house in a more satisfactory manner the large collection of works that had been gathering in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, by utilising part of the new building.
The Capitoline Museum, however, was only opened to the public during the ...
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Pio-Clementino Museum - one of the Vatican Museums
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Open from Monday to Saturday, from 8.45 am to 1 pm. In summer and at Easter, open Monday to Friday to 4.45 pm and Saturday to 1.45 pm. Open on the last Sunday of each month from 9 am to 2 pm. Free entry but long queues.
Greek and Roman art. The most famous statues you will find there are Lacoon, Apollo, Hermes, Belvédère, and Apoxyomenus. ...
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Borghese Gallery
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Private Collections of Royal Families
Provisionally removed to the Complesso San Michele.
Open from 9 am to 7 pm. Sunday to 1 pm. Monday closed.
Galleria Borghese contains masterpieces by Rapha?l, Botticelli, de Messine and Titien.
between the most important art works: Paolina Bonaparte Borgheseby Canova, the Deposizione by Raffaello, the Danae by Correggio, the Pietà by Rubens, the Verità svelata dal tempo and Apollo e Dafne by Bernini, Amor Sacro e Amor Profano by Tiziano. ...
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National Roman Museum - Diocletian's Baths
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Open from 9 am to 2 pm. Sunday until 12.30 pm.
You have to pay entrance.
This museum with its splendid rich collection of ancient Greek and Roman art was installed at the end of last century, in some parts of the baths of Diocletianus (300 AD).The baths covered 14 hectares and could hold 3000 people. ...
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Museo Capitolino of the Palazzo Nuovo - Museum of the Palazzo Conservatori
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Open from 9 am to 1.30 pm. Sunday from 9. am to 1 pm. Tuesday from 5 pm to 8 pm. Saturday from 8 pm to 11 pm.
These museums on Piazza del Campidoglio offer the largest collection of ancient pieces of art in the world. It was instigated by Pope Sistius IV in the mid-15th century. ...
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Doria-Pamphili Gallery
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Private Collections of Royal Families
Open from 10 am to 1 pm. IT is closed on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Entrance fee.
One of the most beautiful private collections of art in Rome.
The Gallery in Rome holds a large number of seventeenth-century masterpieces (works by Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Jan Bruegel, Jusepe Ribera, Velázquez, Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet), and important Renaissance pieces (Titian, Raphael, Garofalo, Lorenzo Lotto, Pieter Bruegel, Correggio, Parmigianino).
In addition to the pictures, there are also the marble busts (several executed by Alessandro Algardi and Gian Lorenzo Bernini), and a large corpus of antique sculptures, ...
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Modern Art Museum
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Open from 9 am to 2 pm. Sunday until 1 pm.
This gallery is essentially devoted to an important collection of Italian painters and sculptors of the 19th and 20th century. Many rooms are reserved for temporary exhibitions and conferences. There is also a library, which allows you to consult some works of modern and contemporary art. ...
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