Attending exhibitions can be the right way to discover some wonderful museums, like Borghese gallery in Rome, Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5, from 22 of May 08 to 14 of September 08.
Twentyfive Correggio’s masterpieces are shown in Rome at Borghese gallery with astonish news: for the first time you can see Correggio’s mythological painting all together. There is the “Jupiter loves” collection, four creations drawing love scenes inspired to Ovidio’s Metamorphosis, ordered to Coreggio by Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. These paintings had been conceived like a whole piece of art but it was shared in four different paintings when donated to Charles V, King of Spain. Borghese gallery already own “Danae” painting; “Leda” has arrived from Berlin Gemäldegalerie, “Io and Ganimede” from Wien Kunsthistorisches. Other Correggio’s masterpieces will be exposed with Love series: “Educazione di Amore” has arrived from London National Gallery and “Venere e Cupido con un Satiro” from Paris Louvre.
Correggio exhibition is a part of Borghese gallery program that schedules a Francis Bacon’s and Caravaggio’s paintings exhibition in 2009; a Dosso Dossi’s in 2010, a Tiziano’s one in 2011, a Cranach’s in 2012, a Bernini’s in 2013, a Domenichino’s in 2014 and the big last one in 2015 dealing about Borghese’s family and its relationship with ancient times.
The exhibition is open every day but Monday from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm.
Mandatory reservation
€ 10,50 Full price (reservation fee included)
€ 7,25 (reservation fee included) Reduced for European citizens aged between 18 and 25 years old and European full-time school teachers.
