Galleria Borghese. The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana.
It holds Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a by life-size marble sculpture considered one of Bernini's masterpieces and a prime example of Baroque art. It depicts the mythological story of Apollo pursuing the nymph Daphne, who is transformed into a laurel tree to escape his advances.
Also in the Borghese is the painting David with the Head of Goliath. This is one of Caravaggio's most famous works and is considered a masterpiece of the Baroque period.
a At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V. The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.
Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St Jerome Writing, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael's Entombment of Christ and work
It holds Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a by life-size marble sculpture considered one of Bernini's masterpieces and a prime example of Baroque art. It depicts the mythological story of Apollo pursuing the nymph Daphne, who is transformed into a laurel tree to escape his advances.
Also in the Borghese is the painting David with the Head of Goliath. This is one of Caravaggio's most famous works and is considered a masterpiece of the Baroque period.
a At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V. The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.
Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St Jerome Writing, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael's Entombment of Christ and work
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