Galleria Borghese
Rome, Italy
The Galleria Borghese is an art museum in Rome, housed in the Villa Borghese Pinciana, a former country villa designed by Flaminio Ponzio in the early seventeenth century. The collection was begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V; the villa was sold to the Italian state in 1902 and opened as a public museum the following year.
Its holdings span the Renaissance to Neoclassicism, with celebrated works by Bernini, Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael and Canova displayed across twenty rooms on two floors.