Galleries and Museums
Galleria Borghese
Villa Borghese, Piazza
Scipione Borghese 5. Tel.06 32810 Online bookings: www.ticketeria.it.
Tues-Sun. 8.30-19.30. Tickets are sold for 2-hour visits, odd hours, booking is mandatory. Sculpture
by Canova, Bernini. Paintings: many Caravaggios, Raphael, Giotto, Titian, Rubens, Correggio. €
8.50
Galleria
Comunale d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Via Francesco Crispi 24. Tel. 06 4742848. Tues-Sat
9-19, Sun 9-14. A former Carmelite convent near the Piazza di Spagna. Rodin, Morandi, De Pisis, De Chirico, Carrà, Fazzini, Mafai, Manzù, Medardo Rosso, Guttuso, Scipione. € 2.58
Galleria Doria Pamphilj - Piazza del Collegio Romano 1A. Tel. 06 6797323. Fri-Wed 10-17, closed Aug. 15. Tintoretto, Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guercino, Bernini, Parmigianino, Memling, Brueghel, Velasquez. € 9
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica - Palazzo Barberini - Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13. Tel. 06 4814591, bookings 06 32810. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Fra Angelico, Raphael's La Fornarina, Tiepolo, Holbein, Poussin. € 5
Galleria
Nazionale d'Arte Antica - Palazzo Corsini
Via
della Lungara 10. Tel. 06 68802323. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Caravaggio, Guercino, Rubens,
16C Dutch and Flemish paintings. € 4
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna
Viale delle Belle Arti 131. Tel. 06 322981. Tues-Sun
8.30-19.30. Extensive collection of 19-20th century Italian painting & sculpture including Fattori, Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carrà, De Chirico, De Pisis, Donghi, Guttuso, Fontana, Burri, Sironi, Rosai, Boccioni, Pomodoro, Scipione, Medardo Rosso, Rodin, Fazzini, Cézanne, van
Gogh. Exhibitions and Gallery € 9, Gallery € 6.50
Galleria
Spada
Piazza
Capo di Ferro 13. near Palazzo Farnese. Tel. (06) 6832409. Bookings Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Borromini, Orazio Gentileschi, Guercino, Reni, Titian. € 5
Giorgio de
Chirico House-Museum
31 Piazza
di Spagna. Tel 066796546. Tues-Sat 10-10.45, 11.30-12.15. Situated
in the apartment where Giorgio De Chirico lived, with many
of De Chirico's late paintings. € 5
Museo Barracco - Palazzo
Piccola Farnesina
Corso Vittorio Emanuele
II, 166/a. Tel. 06 68806848. Tues-Sun 9-19. Building attributed
to Antonio
da Sangallo the Younger. Rare and diverse collection of classical Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and
Etruscan sculpture. € 3
Musei Capitolini - Piazza del Campidoglio
Tues-Sun 9-20. Reservations Tel.
06 39967800. Piazza by Michelangelo. 2 museums
on either side of the piazza. Classical
Greek, Roman, Etruscan sculpture; She-Wolf (Etruscan, 6C BC); Pinacoteca: Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Veronese, Velasquez, Lotto.
€ 6.50.
Museo Nazionale Romano cumulative ticket € 7
Baths
of Diocletian
Via E. de Nicola 78, 44. Tues-Sun
9-19.45, € 5. 306 AD. Antique Greek and
Roman sculpture, copies from Praxiteles, Myron, Lysippus.
Palazzo
Altemps
Piazza S. Apollinare, 44. Tel. 06 6833759. Tues-Sun
9-19.45. Ludovisi Throne (Birth
of Aphrodite). € 5.
Palazzo Massimo
Largo di Villa Peretti, 1. Tues-Sun 9-19.45, Tel 06 48903500. Daughter of
Niobe, Discus Thrower
after Myron, and the Venus
of Cyrene (soon to be returned to Libya). Roman fresco paintings. € 6.
Planetario (Octagonal Hall)
via Romita, 9-13; 15-18. Lyceum Apollo
(from Praxiteles) € 6.
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa
Giulia
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9.
Tel. 06 3201951. Tues-Sun 8.30-19.30. Etruscan bronze and clay
sculpture, Greek and Etruscan vase paintings from Etruscan sites. € 4
MUSEI VATICANI - Vatican
Museums
Info,
Tel. 06 69884947. Hours Mon-Sat entrance 9 -16.00, closes at 18.00; closed Sunday and holidays (summer 2009: May 1 and 21, June 11and 29, August 15), except
last Sunday of month for free admission. Long lines but they move fast. € 14, reduced ticket for children between 6 and 18 years of age and students between 19 and 26 years of age with student identity document, € 8
Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel): north and south walls - Perugino, Botticelli, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo. Vault, Last Judgment (1536- 1541) and ceiling (1508 - 1512) by Michelangelo.
Pinacoteca (Painting Gallery): includes paintings by Giotto, Leonardo, Titian, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Raphael and Caravaggio's Deposition.
Pio-Clementino Museum: Early Christian, Classical Greek and Roman sculpture, including the Belvedere Torso (1C BC), Laocoön, Apollo (1-2C BC), Hermes (2C Roman), Sleeping Ariadne, Athlete (1C) from original by Lysippus.
Etruscan Museum: bronze Mars from Todi (5C BC), excellent collection of Greek and Etruscan vase paintings and sculpture. Also, Egyptian Museum.
Raphael Stanze: rooms painted by Perugino and Raphael.
Chapel of Nicholas V painted by Fra Angelico.
Gregorian Museum of Profane Art: Sculpture - Roman copies of Greek originals, sculptures of republican and early imperial periods, sarcophagi.
Villa Farnesina, Via d. Lungara 230. Mon-Sat 9-13. Built in 1508. Loggia of the Galatea and Cupid and Psyche of Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo. € 5
Monuments
Pantheon - 9 AM - 1 hour before sunset. Founded by Agrippa in 27 BC and rebuilt (AD 117-125) by Hadrian, converted into a church in the 7C. The dome's diameter equals its height, the largest dome until Brunelleschi's at the Florence Cathedral of 1420-36. The curve of the floor and the circular space create an illusion of vastness. In a side chapel is the tomb of Raphael.
Colosseum - 8:30 am to one hour before sunset. € 8 cumulative ticket Colosseum, Palatino. L'anfiteatro Flavio, inaugurated in 80 CE.
Terme di Caracalla - Baths of Caracalla, Viale Terme di Caracalla, 52. 9-19.30, € 6. One of the largest baths of antiquity, inaugurated 216 CE.
Foro Romano - 9-19.30, € 8. Since the foundation of Rome, 754-753 BC.
Domus Aurea - Via della Domus Aurea in the Giardini di Colle Oppio, north of the Colosseum. House of princes, burned in 64 CE. Wed-Mon 9-19.45. € 5, reservation: tel. 06 39967700
Churches
Generally are open 7-19, closed 12-15:30 or 17.
San Clemente - Piazza S. Clemente. 9-12, 1530-18. Lower Church from 1C. Built over a 3C Mithraic temple. 9-11C frescoes. Upper Church, 12C mosaics, frescoes over left aisle by Masolino, and probably Masaccio.
S. Maria in Trastevere - Piazza di S. M. in Trastevere. Closed 12:45-15. Built 337-352. Mosaics of 12C and Pietro Cavallini, Roman friezes, Romanesque campanile.
S. Maria Maggiore - Piazza di S. M. Maggiore. 7-20. Basilica built in 431. 5C mosaics.
S. Maria Sopra Minerva - Piazza della Minerva. Closed 12-4 PM. Michelangelo's Risen Christ, frescoes by Fillipino Lippi.
S. Maria della Vittoria - Via XX Settembre. Bernini: Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
St. Pietro - (at the Vatican): Dome and Pietà by Michelangelo; Canova, Bernini.
San Pietro in Vincoli - Piazza S. Pietro in Vincoli. Closed 12-4 PM. Michelangelo's Tomb of Julius II, Moses.
Caravaggio tour: (all near Piazza Navona)
Sant'Agostino - Piazza di Sant'Agostino. The Madonna of Loreto.
San Luigi dei Francesi - Piazza di S. Luigi dei Francesi. Life of St. Matthew.
S. Maria del Popolo - Piazza del Popolo. Closed 12-4 pm. Conversion of St. Paul and Martyrdom of St. Peter; frescoes by Pinturicchio.
Bookstores:
- Libreria Vecchia Roma - Via del Pelligrino 94 between Via Vittorio Emanuele and Campo dei Fiori. Art books with 50% discount
- The English Bookshop Simba - 248, Via Ripetta
Anglo American Book Co. - Via della Vite 27, Tel. 06 679 52 22 - The Economy Bookstore and Video Center - Via Torino 136, Tel. 06 4746877 The Bookshelf - Via Due Macelli 23, Tel. 06 6784096 (in a gallery).
- Libreria
Feltrinelli - largo Torre Argentina, 11, Tel. 06 68663001
The (Almost) Corner Bookshop - Via del Moro 48, Tel. 06 583 69 42, in Trastevere - Lion Bookshop - V.d. Greci, 33-36 Tel. 06 326 540 07