Must-see paintings and sculptures

Must-see paintings and sculptures

Pietro da Cortona’s The Story of Aeneas – meaning where the pope searched for his roots

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Antoniazzo Romano’s Legend of the True Cross – miraculousness told in a Renaissance way

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Madonna delle mani – an indecent work, damaged and found anew

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Melozzo da Forlì’s Musical angels – Christ among songs, music and dance

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Raphael’s Fire in the Borgo – a hymn on the subject of more than just antiquity

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Michelangelo’s Vault of the Sistine Chapel – a masterpiece born out of doubt and suffering

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Raphael’s Stanzas – meaning how the popes had wanted to live

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Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms to the Poor– a story of the recalcitrant Roman populace

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Melozzo da Forlì’s Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library – pope as an earthly ruler and a patron of science

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Raphael’s’ The School of Athens– a fancy riddle or an alternative history

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Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea – beauty and the beast in a Renaissance version

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Pietro da Cortona’s Triumph of Divine Providence – family apotheosis, meaning painting to the point of breathlessness

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The Deliverance of St. Peter– between reality and a vision

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Daniele da Volterra’s The Descent from the Cross – a faded shadow of a great work, meaning the aftermath of vandalism

Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

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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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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

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.

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

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The 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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