Rome is known as the Eternal City because of its long history. It is very scenic and the chosen location for The Roman Holiday, La Dolce Vita and There coins in the Fountain. It has many famous sites, rich in architecture and paintings – Pantheon, Roman Forum, Colosseum, castel sant’ Angelo, Vatican,Basilica of St Peter, Trevi Fountain, If Gensu, the Spanish steps, Piazza Navona. Rome is shaped by two important artists Michelangelo and Bernini. This slideshow sketch the development of architecture from the Ancient, to the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque to the modern age.
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1. Baroque Rome
The city of Counter Reformation
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River Tiber with the St Peter’s dome behind.
23. Galleria Borghese
The Galleria Borghese was built 1613 and holds some of the most important pieces art and paintings in Europe.
24. “The paintings presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolo Aurelio, whose coat of arms appears on the fountain to
celebrate his marriage to a young widow Laura Bagarotto. It perhaps depicts a figure representing the bride dressed in white
sitting beside Cupid and accompanied by the goddess Venus.” extract from Wikipedia.
Galleria Borghese
25. The gallery has large and important collection of European
paintings, in particular early works of Caravaggio. It also
has some of the best piece of sculptures by Bernini.
Galleria Borghese
39. Piazza Navona
At the centre of the square is the Fiumi fountain, designed by Berini (1651). The four figures at each corner
represented the four great rivers of the world (Ganges, Danube, Nile and River Plate). This is one is Nile, as its
45. His first public commission was big. Caravaggio had never painted such large canvases before. It was at a time when
the Catholic church was facing the challenge from the protestant and responded with a display of their the Catholic
wealth, to make Rome the unrivalled capital of Christianity.
Baroque Churches
San Luigi del Francesi
46. The Calling of St Matthew
Caravaggio had considerable
problems to fulfil the
commission, mainly due to his
fiercely realistic approach to
religious subjects. He had to
modify and to repaint the
paintings, several times. Yet
like this extraordinary realistic
depiction of the aging old man
(the identity St Mathew in the
painting is ambiguous) with
his spectacles, without any
glamour or grandiose.
52. Gesu
The ceiling above the nave by Il Baciccia, is an astonishing fresco of the Triumph of the Name of Jesus. On the
ceiling and around are stucco angels that strengthen the illusion.
53. The main ceiling painting is integrated with stucco figures - Giovanni Battista Gaulli . Il Gesu.
54. The damned falling out of the heaven. Some are turning into animals. - Giovanni Battista Gaulli . Il Gesu.
55. Gesu
The interior of the dome was painted by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (also known as Bacicco). Il Gesu.
56. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
Building began in 1626. It
was canonised as Ignatius
of Loyola, in honour of
founder of the Jesuit order.
59. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709),
was a Jesuit brother and skilful
in illusionist paintings.
As the visitors looked up to the
ceiling, they would see the
heaven, where St Ignatius of
Loyola is being received the
Light of God as he proceeds
from Christ tand witness by the
people from the four corners of
the world.
60. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
This is the painted Illusionistic dome (aft 1685), at the crossing of the Sant Ignazio di Loyola by Pozzo. .
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Music – Three Coins in the Fountain sung by Frank Sinatra
Rome is known as the Eternal City because of its long history. It is very scenic and the chosen location for The Roman Holiday, La Dolce Vita and There coins in the Fountain. It has many famous sites, rich in architecture and paintings – Pantheon, Roman Forum, Colosseum, castel sant’ Angelo, Vatican,Basilica of St Peter, Trevi Fountain, If Gensu, the Spanish steps, Piazza Navona. Rome is shaped by two important artists Michelangelo and Bernini. This slideshow sketch the development of architecture from the Ancient, to the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque to the modern age.
History of Major Releases
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