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A privileged visit to the laboratory where Caravaggio’s paintings were restored with Roma Experience
Last 1st of August we had the honor of being invited by Roma Experience to take part into the innovative “Restoring Caravaggio” tour in Rome, which allows visitors to get ... -
Five heroines in Rome art history for #womenMW
Today the "Museum Week 2018" starts, calling all the museums and the cultural institutions on the social stage to their collection and engage people around important topics and d ... -
Quatremère de Quincy's letter to defend Roman cultural heritage
More than 200 years ago, in the heat of French Revolution, the art theorist Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy wrote an enlightened letter probably addressed to military leader Francisco de Miranda, in ... -
Biblioteca Angelica, the earliest public library in modern Rome
Behind the popular piazza Navona, there’s a hidden place in Rome where the smell of the past still reigns and the noisy strides of history become gentle and slow. One ... -
Rethinking the history of Rococo: the unique decoration of the chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena
There’s a church in Rome that is one of the evidences that some pages of art history bos should be rewritten. Near the Pantheon, the architectural decoration of the chiesa ... -
Galileo’s moon: art, science and religion at the Pauline chapel
When pope Po V Borghese commissioned his funerary chapel at Santa Maria Maggiore, destined to house the miraculous Marian icon not created by human hands, Ludovico Cardi called il Cigoli ... -
Art conversation at the newly opened Palazzo Venezia courtyard
A fascinating series of cultural events is taking place these summer nights until the 16th of September in the context of “Il giardino ritrovato” (The recovered garden) initiative, conceived to ... -
The miraculous image of Madonna dei Monti
Set in the characteristic alleys of Monti neighborhood, in the area corresponding to the ancient Roman quarter of the Suburra, the chiesa di Santa Maria ai Monti is one of ... -
A poem on the Colosseum by Edgar Allan Poe
Timeless voices still echo within the ruins of the Flavian Amphitheater: that ones of the people who rejoiced, suffered or gazed there in wonder, and that ones of the people ... -
Mysterious family tales at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Like Galleria Colonna, Galleria Doria Pamphilj is one of the few art collections in Rome displayed in their original location at Palazzo Pamphilj al Collegio Romano, now called Palazzo Doria ...
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