Residential and representative buildings
Casina of Cardinal Bessarion – a summer house from the Renaissance
Casino dell’Aurora – a pearl of art of an entrepreneurial papal nepot
Casino di Villa Doria Pamphilj – a symbol of social status and a tool of international rivalries
Casino Ludovisi – a cardinal’s idyll on the outskirts of the city
Palazzo Altemps - a refined ambience for a treasury of antique art
Palazzo Altieri – the pride of a papal family
Palazzo Barberini – a monument of papal ambitions, of which the likes Rome had never before seen
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj – a palace famous for its love of art
Palazzo di Firenze – the unloved residence of the de’ Medici family
Palazzo Mattei di Giove – a salon and an open-air museum
Palazzo Pamphilj – a residence of a woman of iron will and untamed ambition
Palazzo Venezia – a residence of popes, ambassadors and Fascists
Perspective Gallery of Palazzo Spada – fiction and reality, meaning architectural games with the senses
The Hall of Constantine (Stanza di Constantino) – a hymn praising the papacy
Villa Farnesina – built with the thought of eternal glory
Villa Giulia – the earthly paradise of Pope Julius III
Villa of Maxentius – the rural residence of an unfortunate ruler
Villa Medici – a Florentine and French enclave on Pincio Hill
Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender
The figure of the Hermaphrodite stimulated the imagination of the people of Antiquity in a particular way. A being of two genders – both female and male – seemed privileged exceptional, and completely ideal, however, it also aroused ambivalent feelings and suspicion. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a figure with male genitalia and female breasts garnered a lot of attention both in literature as well as in the visual arts. When it comes to the latter, the favored topic (although not the only one), was a sleeping Hermaphrodite. This is how he is depicted, stretched on b...
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Femme fatale is associated with painting and literature of the XIX century – with women who devoured the hearts of men, cold-blooded demons of sex who with premeditation led men to their downfall. However, beautiful, erotic, attractive, but at the same time ruthless and sophisticated women have always fascinated artists. We can find them in ancient literature and mythology, as well as in the Old and New Testaments. We can also see them in the painting creations of Caravaggio and his successors because it was exactly in the XVII century when Salome, Judith, and Herodias became fashionable...
See moreSpada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated
Numerous posthumous chapels, which we can see during a pilgrimage through Roman churches are generally filled with decorations and works of art. They arouse our respect, and approval, and let our thoughts linger on the grandeur and significance of the family, but above all their sense of art. It is quite seldom that we think about them in purely practical categories, not to say mercantile. It is a rare situation indeed that we can say that the main motive of their creation was not only the desire to immortalize one’s fame, but also the prestige of future, yet unborn successors of the fam...
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