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Episode 362 - Vatican Museums - The Pinacoteca

Rebuilding The Renaissance

While more than 7 million people visit the Vatican Museums each year, few of them realize there is much more to this extraordinary collection than just the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel. The Pinacoteca, or “painting gallery,” of the Vatican Museums opened in 1932 and includes masterpieces by Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Bernini.

Episode 361 - Rome - The National Gallery of Ancient Art in the Barberini Palace

Rebuilding The Renaissance

Located in the beautiful Baroque Barberini Palace, the National Gallery of Ancient Art contains works of art produced before the year 1800. It includes masterpieces by Andrea del Sarto, Bronzino, Canaletto, Titian, and Tintoretto. But the collection's most important works are Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” Bernini’s “Bust of Pope Urban VIII,” and Pietro da Cortona’s spectacular ceiling fresco “The Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power.”

Episode 360 - Rome - The Borghese Gallery (Part IV)

Rebuilding The Renaissance

This 4th and final episode dedicated to extraordinary art collection in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy, focuses on the painting collection on the second floor of the museum, which includes masterpieces by Raphael, Correggio, and Titian.

Episode 359 - Rome: The Borghese Gallery (Part III)

Rebuilding The Renaissance

This episode takes you through the 1st-floor rooms of the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy. It discusses the breathtaking early statues by Gian Lorenzo Bernini - “Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius,” “Pluto and Persephone,” “Apollo and Daphne,” and “David,” as well as Antonio Canova’s sublime Neoclassical “Paolina Bonaparte as Venus Victrix."

Episode 358 - Rome: The Borghese Gallery (Part II)

Rebuilding The Renaissance

This podcast takes you into the extraordinary building and collection of the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy. From the great hall with its beautiful ceiling fresco, ancient Roman floor mosaics depicting gladiators and beast hunters, and ancient/Baroque statue of “Marcus Curtius,” to the adjoining Caravaggio room which houses six paintings by the great master, a visitor to the Borghese Gallery is immediately struck by the magnificence of the collection.

Episode 357 - Rome: The Borghese Gallery I

Rebuilding The Renaissance

Shortly after his election, Pope Paul V Borghese decided to transform his land outside the Porta Pinciana in Rome, Italy, into the city’s greatest villa complex. The result was one of the most beautiful and majestic examples of traditional and landscape architecture. The building, today known as the Borghese Gallery, as well as the surrounding gardens evolved over three centuries. This first episode dedicated to the Borghese Gallery explores the history of the Borghese family, the gallery, and the park.

Episode 356 - Answers to Open Questions XXVI

Rebuilding The Renaissance

From my opinion on the recently discovered paintings attributed to Caravaggio, to the influence of Hadrian’s Villa on Borromini’s architecture, to a possible connection between Caravaggio’s “Burial of St. Lucy” and the movie "Schindler’s List,” to why Michelangelo’s “David” is more famous than Bernini’s, and much, much more - this episode answers the very questions that you ask me about the great art, artists, and history of the Italian Renaissance.

Episode 355 - Rome - The Doria Pamphilj Gallery

Rebuilding The Renaissance

Located in the Doria Pamphilj Palace (where the Doria Pamphilj family still resides) on the Via del Corso in the heart of Rome, Italy, the gallery houses one of Italy’s most important art collections. It includes portraits of Pope Innocent X by Velasquez and Bernini, as well as two of Caravaggio’s earliest paintings – the “Penitent Magdalene” and the “Rest on the Flight into Egypt.”

Episode 354 - Rome - The Capitoline Museums

Rebuilding The Renaissance

The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archaeological museums located on top of the Capitoline Hill, which was the political and religious center of ancient Rome. Their collections focus on the history of Rome and include masterpieces such as the “Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius," the “Capitoline Wolf, ” the “Dying Gaul, ” but also later masterpieces such as Caravaggio’s “Fortune Teller” and Bernini’s “Head of Medusa."

Episode 353 - Milan: The Ambrosian Art Gallery

Rebuilding The Renaissance

Part of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, Italy, the Ambrosian Art Gallery was founded along with the library by the celebrated Cardinal Federico Borromini in 1609 to house his extensive collection of manuscripts, books, and paintings. The collection today includes “The Portrait of a Musician” attributed by many to Leonardo da Vinci, the “Cartoon for the School of Athens” by Raphael, and “The Basket of Fruit” by Caravaggio. In addition to these great masterpieces, the Ambrosian Art Gallery is also home to the world largest collection of drawings and writings by Leonardo da Vinci,...

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