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Museo e Galleria Borghese
The first-floor museum houses ancient Greek
and Roman sculpture as well as early Bernini
masterpieces such as his David (1619).
Upstairs are paintings by Titian,
Rubens, and other masters.

Palazzo Barberini
The works of art here date
mainly from the 13th to the
16th centuries. This figure of
Providence comes from
Pietro da Cortona’s The
Triumph of Divine
Providence (1633–9).

Piazza di
Spagna Via Veneto

Piazza
della
Rotonda
Quirinal

Campo Capitol Esquiline Museo Nazionale Romano
This fresco, from Livia’s Villa
de’ Fiori
Forum (1st century AD)
outside Rome, is
one of a huge
collection of
finds from
Palatine archaeological
Lateran sites throughout
the city.
Palazzo Venezia
The highlights of
Rome’s most significant
Aventine Caracalla museum of decorative
arts are its Byzantine and
medieval collections,
including this Byzantine
enamel of Christ dating
from the 13th century.

Capitoline Museums:
Palazzo Nuovo
Capitoline Museums: Among the sculptures
Palazzo dei Conservatori is this head of Giulia
Pietro da Cortona’s Rape of the Sabine Women Domna (wife of
(1629) is one of many Baroque paintings in Septimius Severus) from
the picture gallery. the 2nd century AD.

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