Galleria Borghese in Rome occupies the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, created in the 17th century as both a suburban residence and a setting for Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s art collection. Built from designs linked to Scipione’s sketches and associated with Flaminio Ponzio and Giovanni Vasanzio, it preserves major paintings, antiquities, and sculpture in rooms designed for display. The museum is especially renowned for works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Canova, and above all Bernini, whose sculptures and portrait busts are central to its identity. Later reshaped into a more public museum, it remains a vivid record of Borghese patronage and Italian art from antiquity through Neoclassicism.

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