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1700 was an incredibly vibrant century in Rome from the artistic point of view; crossroads of artists, intellectuals, connoisseurs and art lovers, the Eternal City was an incubator of ideas that, developing, have shaped our vision of classical aesthetics.
(another post about neoclassic art is here)
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By crossing the entrance of the Vatican Museums we mostly think about art, history and religion. We think about the power of Roman sculptures and the calm of Egyptian statues. To the timeless perfection of the Renaissance frescoes by Michelangelo and Raphael.
And that’s exactly where we have to go: halfway between the rooms frescoed by Raphael for popes Julius II and Leo X and Michelangelo’s sensational Sistine Chapel. There, in the rooms frescoed at the end of the 1400s by Pinturicchio for Pope Alexander VI Borgia, we find a museum of modern art; this is the collection opened in 1973 by Pope Paul VI, one of the thirteen museums of the Vatican Museums.
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Raffaello Sanzio,Trionfo di Galatea, 1512. Villa Chigi (Farnesina), Roma
After the youth stage characterized by experimentation, Caravaggio has come to success and is one of the most knew painters in Rome, to which are entrusted several public commissions, especially for the churches. In these paintings the subjects are everytime developed in a different way, and the circumstances and spiritual meanings are never forget.
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