Sunday, November 21, 2010

Villa-Borghing it up: the Galleria Borghese!

Cranach
On saturday, the FIRST saturday in a month that we'd been in Rome (felt so good to take a break!), we decided to do some site-seeing in our city so Jenna had reserved tickets (in advance, way to go Jenna!) for the Galleria Borghese.  The galleria is located in the huge and beautiful Villa Borghese park.  The Museum is home to paintings and sculptures by artists including as Raphael, Caravaggio, Bernini, Canova, and a special exhibit by the german renaissance artist, Cranach.  The museum is pretty small so you can see everything in about two hours.  We enjoyed our expedition and ended the day with gelato from San Crispino's by the Pantheon.
Here are some of the things we saw:
Leonardo Copy of Leda and the Swan
Canova, Paolina
Daphne and Apollo, Bernini

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