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 Borgianni (1574–1616) – a melancholic with intellectual ambitions and an explosive character
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
The Vestal Virgin Tuccia – between virtue and downfall, meaning the story of an unwanted work
In February 1743 the famous and valued at European courts Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini came to the Eternal City and opened up a workshop near the Palazzo Barberini, the center of artistic life of the then Rome (Vicolo della Catena). In his atelier, he not only worked on a new work but also hosted important guests, who came there only to see the virtuosity and bravado of his new artistic creation. And this time it was the figure of a veiled woman.
See moreChurch of Sant’ Apollinare – a church „with a past”
This little-known and not particularly distinguishable church had only become famous fairly recently. The crowds shouting and protesting in front of its façade had attracted attention to it, due to an issue that was rather shameful for the church, we may even say disgraceful. There was renewed discussion about the ever-present friendship between the Tiara and the criminal world, as well as the shady businesses and shady dealings of the people of the Church. Presently the church is a basilica minor a title which it acquired in 1984 thanks to Pope John Paul II. It was also during his pont...
See moreFontane on Piazza Farnese – ancient baths in the service of the Farnese family
In front of the monumental palace of the Farnese family, there is a square (Piazza Farnese) with two identical fountains on the sides. From each, the water flows in a gentle manner. Yet in the past, which is testified to by old drawings, these were veritable cascades – the steams from the fountains soared upwards and with great impact fell into the upper basins, while the incoming excess water, as a thick curtain descended into the basins below.
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