Raphael, Titian, Rubens. Masterpieces from Galleria Borghese to Palazzo Barberini

The National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Galleria Borghese join together for an unprecedented event featuring fifty paintings by some of the greatest masters of art of all time.

On display are precious works of art from the Galleria Borghese, moved to the south wing of the noble floor of Palazzo Barberini during the significant project of renovation and protection of the museum born from the collection of Scipione Borghese, which will nevertheless remain open and visitable on the ground floor with paintings by Caravaggio, Bernini's sculptural groups and many 
other artistic treasures.

The exceptional exhibition path offers visitors the opportunity to continue admiring some of the masterpieces of the Galleria Borghese, including Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Antonello da Messina's Portrait of a Man, Raphael's Lady with Unicorn, Peter Paul Rubens' Susanna and the Elders, Sandro Botticelli's Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Angels, Giovanni Bellini's Virgin and Child and Paolo Veronese's The Baptist Preaching.

The remarkable initiative between the two prestigious museum institutions gives life to a historical, artistic and cultural dialogue between the two collections, ideally uniting the powerful and authoritative figures of Maffeo Barberini and Scipione Borghese, great patrons and art collectors, protagonists of 17th-century Rome.

The intervention carried out at the Borghese Gallery, implemented thanks to PNRR funds, involves the façades, the Pinacoteca, the replacement of upholstery, the modernisation of fixtures, the expansion of cultural accessibility, the updating of storage areas and the restoration of some large canvases The temporary disassembly of the rooms in the South Wing of Palazzo Barberini, on the other hand, entails the beginning of an accurate photographic campaign and preventive conservation of the works from the Neapolitan 17th century to the 18th-century collection, from Mattia Preti to the painters of the Grand Tour, usually housed in these rooms.

Photo: Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1488-90-Venezia 1576) Venus Blindfolding Cupid, 1560-1565 ca. oil on canvas,116x184 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma ©Galleria Borghese