Galleria Borghese
The Galleria Borghese (Galleria Borghese) is housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana—an art collection that starts with one name: Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (whose reign ran from 1605 to 1621). You’re stepping into a building that was designed by Giovanni Vasanzio, and it was meant to work like a villa suburbana, a countryside retreat right at the edge of Rome. This gallery’s paintings and sculpture are drawn from the Borghese Collection—famous for artists like Caravaggio, Bernini, Canova, Raphael, and Titian. Caravaggio is especially strong here: works such as *Boy with a Basket of Fruit*, *St Jerome Writing*, and *Sick Bacchus* are part of the display. And the collection also traces shifts in Italian art from the Renaissance to the Baroque and onward into Neoclassicism. …
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