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Piazza di Siena, Villa Borghese gardens, Rome.
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Villa Borghese is a large[1] landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.
History
In 1605, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V and patron of Bernini, began turning this former vineyard into the most extensive gardens built in Rome since Antiquity. The vineyard's site is identified with the gardens of Lucullus, the most famous in the late Roman republic. In the 19th century much of the garden's former formality was remade as a landscape garden in the English taste (illustration, right). The Villa Borghese gardens were long informally open but were bought by the commune of Rome and given to the public in 1903. The large landscape park in the English taste contains several villas. The Spanish Steps lead up to this park, and there is another entrance at the Porte del Popolo by Piazza del Popolo. The Pincio (the Pincian Hill of ancient Rome), in the south part of the park, offers one of the greatest views over Rome.Villas in the gardens
- Today the Galleria Borghese is housed in the Villa Borghese itself. The garden Casino Borghese, built on a rise above the Villa by the architect Giovanni Vasanzio, was set up by Camillo Borghese to contain sculptures by Bernini from the Borghese collection, including his David and his Daphne, and by Antonio Canova (Paolina Borghese), with paintings by Titian, Raphael and Caravaggio.
- The Villa Giulia adjoining the Villa Borghese gardens was built in 1551 - 1555 as a summer residence for Pope Julius III; now it contains the Etruscan Museum (Museo Etrusco).
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Painting by Diego Velázquez
- The Villa Medici houses the French Academy in Rome, and the Fortezzuola a Gothic garden structure that houses a collection memorializing the academic modern sculptor Pietro Canonica. In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night. Before electricity, such torchlit illuminations carried an excitement hard to conceive today.
- Other villas scattered through the Villa Borghese gardens are remains of a world exposition in Rome in 1911.
- The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna located in its grounds has a collection of 19th and 20th century paintings emphasizing Italian artists.
- Architecturally the most notable of the 1911 exposition pavilions is the English pavilion designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (who later designed New Delhi), now housing the British School at Rome.
Trivia
The villa's gardens feature in one of Respighi's Pini di Roma. Beside the 1911 Exposition's villas, there is the Exposition's Zoo, recently rearranged, with minimal caging, as the Bioparco, and the Zoological Museum (Museo di Zoologia).Photograph gallery
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Landmarks of Rome | |
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Gardens, Parks, and Natural Attractions:
Tiber Island
Villa Borghese | |
Ancient Temples, Monuments, and Sporting Venues:
Ara Pacis
Castel Sant'Angelo
Circus Maximus
Colosseum
Pantheon
Roman Forum
Temple of Portunus
Largo di Torre Argentina
Obelisks
Temple of Jupiter (Capitoline Hill)
Temple of Hercules Victor | |
Aqueducts, Fountains, and Walls:
Trevi Fountain
Baths of Caracalla
Aurelian Walls
Spanish Steps
Servian Wall
Palazzo Farnese
Piazza Navona | |
Sculptures:
Apollo Belvedere
La Bocca della Verit
Laocon and his Sons | |
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form is known as a residential garden.
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Comune di Roma
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Nickname: "The Eternal City"
Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR) (Latin)
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Nickname: "The Eternal City"
Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR) (Latin)
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Established 1903
Location Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Director Anna Coliva
Website www.galleriaborghese.
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Villa Doria Pamphili, on the Gianicolo, the Roman Janiculum, is the largest public landscaped park of Rome. It has an area of 1.8 km². It was bought in 1965–1971 by the City of Rome from the Doria-Pamphilj family—the family favor the orthography of the long i.
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Established 1903
Location Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Director Anna Coliva
Website www.galleriaborghese.
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The Pincian Hill,
a of Rome
In Latin / Italian Collis Hortulorum
(hill of the gardens), or
Mons Pincius /
Pincio
Rione Prati
Buildings
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a of Rome
In Latin / Italian Collis Hortulorum
(hill of the gardens), or
Mons Pincius /
Pincio
Rione Prati
Buildings
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576 - october 2, 1633) was an Italian Renaissance prelate, art collector and member of the noble Borghese family.
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Biography
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576 - october 2, 1633) was an Italian Renaissance prelate, art collector and member of the noble Borghese family.
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Biography
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Pope Paul V (Rome, September 17, 1550 – January 28, 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death.
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Early life
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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.
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The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani) were an ancient patrician villa on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome; they were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BCE.
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Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) is a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by Trinità dei Monti, the church that was under the patronage of the
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Piazza del Popolo is a square in Rome, Italy. The name in modern Italian literally means "piazza of the people", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo
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The Pincian Hill,
a of Rome
In Latin / Italian Collis Hortulorum
(hill of the gardens), or
Mons Pincius /
Pincio
Rione Prati
Buildings
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a of Rome
In Latin / Italian Collis Hortulorum
(hill of the gardens), or
Mons Pincius /
Pincio
Rione Prati
Buildings
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Established 1903
Location Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Director Anna Coliva
Website www.galleriaborghese.
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Giovanni Vasanzio or Jan van Santen (Utrecht c. 1550 — 1621) was a Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver who spent his mature career in Rome, where he arrived in the 1580s.
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Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla (July 19 1775 - May 9 1832) was a member of the Borghese family, best known for being brother-in-law to Napoleon.
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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.
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The Borghese Collection was a collection of Roman sculptures, old masters and modern art collected by the Roman Borghese family from the 17th century on. It includes major collections of Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian, and of ancient Roman art.
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Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical sculptor, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of
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Tiziano
self-portrait
Birth name Tiziano Vecelli
c. 1485
Pieve di Cadore
27 August 1576
Venice
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c.
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self-portrait
Birth name Tiziano Vecelli
c. 1485
Pieve di Cadore
27 August 1576
Venice
- Also see: Titian (disambiguation).
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c.
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Caravaggio
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621.
Birth name Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
28 September 1571
Milan
18 July 1610 (aged 40) (Aged 38)
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Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621.
Birth name Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
28 September 1571
Milan
18 July 1610 (aged 40) (Aged 38)
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Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It was built by Pope Julius III in 1550-1555 on what was then the edge of the city. Today it is publicly owned, and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, an impressive collection of Etruscan art and artifacts.
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Pope Julius III (September 10, 1487 – March 23, 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555.
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The Villa Medici is an architectural complex centred on the villa whose gardens are contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome.
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The French Academy in Rome (French: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
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Diego Velázquez
Self portrait of Diego Velázquez, painted around 1643. Uffizi gallery, Florence, Italy
Birth name Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez
May 6 1599
Seville, Andalusia
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Self portrait of Diego Velázquez, painted around 1643. Uffizi gallery, Florence, Italy
Birth name Diego RodrÃguez de Silva y Velázquez
May 6 1599
Seville, Andalusia
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International Exhibition of Art, (Italian - Esposizione internazionale d'arte), a world's fair held in Rome in 1911. It marked the beginnings of the National Roman Museum.
The British Pavilion from it was in 1912 taken over by the British School at Rome, who still hold it.
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The British Pavilion from it was in 1912 taken over by the British School at Rome, who still hold it.
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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
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