Artists
Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) – unappreciated master of the Baroque art
Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709) – a master of painting illusion
Andrea Sansovino (approx. 1467–1529) – the one who was able to bring the dead back to life
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) – a straightforward recluse in the world of Roman splendor
Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name
Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) – praised by his contemporaries, disregarded by later generations
Antonio Raggi (1624–1686) – a second pair of hands for master Bernini
Armando Brasini (1879–1965) – creator of a bombastically draped architecture
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) – an unwomanly painter, humiliated and forgotten for centuries
Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth
Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592) – the beginnings of an outstanding career of a great Italian Mannerist
Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious
Camillo Rusconi (1658–1728) – a little known genius of the turn of the centuries
Caravaggio (1571–1610) - a subtle interpreter of the Bible and a common criminal
Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) – a sought-after, hard-working and talented architect
Carlo Maratti (Maratta) (1625–1713) – an outstanding portraitist and a father of an equally outstanding daughter
Carlo Rainaldi (1611–1691) – an architect with a love for music
Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620) – an artist somewhere between verismo and idealism
Cosimo Fancelli (1618–1688), a great, but second-tier master of the Roman Baroque
Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566) – sentenced to many years of ridicule
Dirck van Baburen (approx. 1592/93–1624) – a short, intense life of a Caravaggionist from the North
Domenichino (1581–1641), the Roman rise and Neapolitan fall of little Dominic
Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) – an exceptional architect of an entrepreneurial pope
Domenico Guidi (1625–1701) – meaning Bernini in the French style
Donato Bramante (1444 –1514) – a famous wrecker, who changed the face of Rome
Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) – an imitator of extraordinary talent
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) – a distrustful melancholic and an extravagant architect
Francesco Cavallini (1640–1703) – a sculptor of garlands and swaying saints
Francesco Mochi (1580–1654) – ousted, forgotten, disconsolate
Gerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter
Giacomo della Porta (1533–1602), an author of Roman fountains and the most famous façade in the history of art
Giovanni (Gian) Lorenzo Bernini (1599–1680) – Impulsive, arrogant and ingenious favorite of the popes
Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) – elegance of late Baroque
Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant
Giuliano Finelli (1602–1653) – a sculptor of lace, leaves and collars, but also more
Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640) – in the past popular, today a forgotten favorite of the popes
Guercino (1591–1666) – short career of the Pope’s chosen one in Rome
Guido Reni (1575–1642) – a gambler with subtle manners
Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570) – unappreciated in Rome, famous in Venice
Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) – a rationalist, Fascist and postmodern architect
Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) – praised and criticized creator of Fascist Rome
Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) – the one who introduced the delicate touch of Renaissance to Rome
Michelangelo (1475–1564), a painter by force – divine, yet miserable
Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) – a vagabond architect
Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
Pierre Le Gros (1666–1719) – the dramatically halted magnificent Roman career
Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) – a master of elegance and theatrical gestures
Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) – a virtuoso of glories, triumphs and apotheoses of all kinds
Pinturicchio (1454–1513) – a creator of a simple, filled with grace storylines
Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance
Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years
When wandering the museum rooms of the Roman Palazzo Massimo we reach this place, we can be under the impression that we are surrounded by ancient gods and heroes, and each of them wants to attract our attention, stop us, and tell us their own story. We find ourselves among snow-white statues, which like actors play roles that only they are aware of. We can look at them from all sides, and admire their beautiful bodies and elegant gestures captured in stone. It is here that we will see the crouching Aphrodite as if surprised by our coming. Her face is only partially preserved. She is also miss...
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Yes, miracles do happen, since that is what we can call the event that occurred over twenty years ago thanks to, two Italian art historians. In the sacristy of the Church of San Vincenzo Martire in the provincial town of Bassano Romano, seventy-two kilometers from Rome, they discovered something, which caused a veritable euphoria – a statue that had until then been considered the work of an unknown Baroque sculptor, turned out to be the forgotten work of Michelangelo.
See moreThe Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background
NewsThe Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background
The married couple of Mary and Joseph lean over their son in pious adoration, Mary’s aunt – Elizabeth (also a young mother) – is kneeling, holding her son John, who in the future will be given the nickname “the Baptist” and at the same time gently embraces her tiny relative – Jesus. He, with one hand, blesses his distant cousin, and with the other carefully touches the dove, that John is handing to him. The group is accompanied by an angel standing in the background, however, the viewer's eye focuses on the crib found in the foreground. It aroused such admir...
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