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Aventine Hill – a place of peace, harmony and spiritual enrichment

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Campo de’Fiori – a field full of flowers, bloodbaths, and market stalls

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Città Universitaria – the pride of Fascists: between academic monumentalism and rationalism

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Foro Italico – an enclave of the cult of Mussolini and his empire

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Forum of Augustus (Forum Augustum) – a complex in his own honor and that of religion

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Forum Boarium – an ancient place of trade and cult

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Forum of Caesar (Forum Iulium) – discreet ambitions of a dictator, meaning a square in his own honor

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Forum of Nerva – an unfinished work of a condemned emperor

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Catacombs of St. Agnes – burial in the shadow of a famous martyr

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Small Aventine – in search of ancient and early Christian Rome

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Piazza Augusto Imperatore – in the service of historical policy

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Piazza del Popolo – the calling card of the city: a prestigious, elegant and representative location

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Piazza della Madonna dei Monti – a place not for tourists, picturesque and lively

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Piazza della Rotonda – the tribulation of popes, a square cleaned for centuries

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Piazza di San Pietro – an ingenious idea of two visionaries

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Piazza Navona – from a stadium to a representative salon of the pope

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Piazza Venezia – the vibrant heart of Rome

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Via dei Fori Imperiali – an axis with political and ideological roots

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Via della Conciliazione – a road to reconciliation, and at the same time the beginning of a new era for the Church

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Villa Aldobrandini – a place of respite over the city teeming with life

Caravaggio’s Young Sick Bacchus – an artist in the guise or perhaps something much more?

Who would have liked to buy a painting depicting a boy with dirty nails and an earthen face? Who would have chosen to hang it in his salon? For whom did Caravaggio paint this rather smallish painting? Whom did he want to interest in it? These are the questions that allow us to understand how revolutionary were the first works of Michelangelo Merisi and what a breakthrough it was to put them up on the so-called free market. This is how he opened a new stage in Italian art – the artist freed himself from the pressure of the client and created for an anonymous recipient. This provided him w...

The Pieta Chapel (Cappella della Pietà) in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a breath of fresh air of Dutch art

On Janiculum Hill in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, there are numerous magnificent paintings and sculptures completed by famous artists. It is worth taking a look at them before we come to a stop in front of the fourth chapel in the left nave. Immediately we are struck by the extremely rich sculpting decorations, but also the refined architectural concept. Only a short while later our attention is directed to the paintings found within, strangely different from the other decorations of the church. There is something veristic in them, something earthly, un-Italian, simply different. And...

Dirck van Baburen’s The Entombment of Christ – catching up with Caravaggio

It was a truly amazing painting career, but also a time of playfulness, and youthful fun. That is how we can sum up the several years of the Utrecht-born painter Dirck van Baburen’s stay in the Eternal City. A young, ambitious, skillful artist, who was able to enjoy life, brought from Utrecht the admiration of Caravaggio and his art. How is it possible, we may ask, that a mere few years after the death of Michelangelo Merisi, his fame spread all the way to the distant city in the northern Netherlands, provoking a veritable throng of his enthusiasts to come to the city on the Tiber, inclu...

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