One of the best sites I've missed in Rome is the Borghese
Gallary. According to Rick Steves you need to need reservations
to get in, and reservations are typically sold out days in
advance. I checked on my iPhone - they had a reservation
available for first thing Thursday morning!. I tried to book a
reservation but I wasn't able to get 'verified by visa'. I called
Chase and after a lengthy phone call I was able to get a reservation
while I walked about a mile and a half over to the Borghese.
This page has nearly 150 pictures from the Borghese
Gallary and National Museum of Rome... and not much else!
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You no longer enter through the front door or main entry hall, you now
enter in the back in room IV, Bernini's The Rape of Proserpina
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Diana the Hunter - Greek 1st century
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Room III - Bernin's Apollo and Daphne
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Room II - Bernini's David
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Room 1 - Canova's Pauline Borgehese (Napoleon's sister) as Venus
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Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
Note the first century Greek Falling Horse in the upper left, the rider
was added by Pietro Bernini, father of the famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
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Gladiators in Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
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Gladiators in Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
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Gladiators in Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
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Gladiators in Borghese Galleria Main Entry Hall
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Room VI - Bernini's Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
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Bernini's Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
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Young Sick Bacchus by Caravaggio c 1593
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Saint Jerome Writing by Caravaggio c 1606
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Madonna, Child, and Serpant by Caravaggio c 1605 - 1606
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St John the Baptist by Caravaggio c 1610
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Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio c 1593
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Caravaggio as Goliath
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David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio
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The Last Supper by Jacopo Bassano c 1546
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Deposition by Peter Paul Rubens c 1602
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Sacred and Profane Love - Titian
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Portrait of a Man - Raphael, 1502
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Lady with a Unicorn by Raphael c 1505
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The Deposition by Raphael c 1507
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Virgin and Child with Six Angels and the Baptist - Botticelli
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Danaë by Correggio c 1531
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Borghese Gallerria
On the hike back from the Borghese Gallerria I bought a Gusto Limone Gatorade and was immediately hooked.
For the rest of the trip I looked for Gusto Limone Gatorade at every train station and convenience store to quench my thirst
I later was disappointed to learn you can't buy it in the States, and I can't find anything that tastes like it...
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Porta Pinciana
I made a quick 20 minute visit to the Cappuccin Crypt - they don't
allow pics.
After two previous failed attempted on different trips, I finally got
to Santa Maria della Vittoria Church when it was open.
Unfortunately they were holding mass for St Peter and Paul Day and I
wasn't able to see Bernini's St
Teresa in Ecstacy from the back of the church.
I stopped by the Baths of Diocletian but they were also holding mass so
I couldn't get a good look at the 'sundial' on the floor.
Finally I got to the National Museum of Rome.
I'd been here only
once before in 2003 and didn't get to see the entire collection.
The collection was better than I remembered, and is on par with the
collections in the museums in Naples and Lyon.
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For dinner I headed to Rick Steves' recommended Osteria Delle
Coppelle. The beer and food were great.
