Sep 03

The Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel by Night | Unusual Top Quality Rome Tour

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Vatican by Night 2010

The Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with more than four million visitors every year, more than 7 kilometers of alleys and more than 1400 rooms to tour host one of the most incredible collections of art and masterpieces in the world enjoyed by parents and kids alike. The Vatican Museums are among the greatest museums in the world displaying works from an immense collection going back to ancient Rome times built up over the last 5 centuries by the Holy See starting with Pope Julius II who founded the Vatican Museums in the 16th century.

By touring the Vatican by night visitors are able to admire not only the breathtaking collections that include the Upper Galleries of the Vatican Museums (Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps), the Raphael rooms and the Sistine Chapel but will also have access to the Egyptian Museum, the smallbut memorable Pio-Clementino Museum and it’s Octagonal Courtyard home to some of the best Vatican’s classical statuary.

That’s just the beginning with more good news for October 2010 with the exceptional events «Che c’è di bello» that blend music, theater, cultural and art exhibitions. To attend these Vatican by night events tickets must be reserved in advance through the Vatican State official website or by contacting our VIP Vatican consultants that will be glad to design a one of a kind Vatican by night itinerary customized just for you and you private party.

These memorable artistic and cultural shows will start at around 8,30 PM and last for about an hour leaving then plenty of time to continue the tour of the Vatican and will be performed at some stunning Vatican venues such as the Terrazze della Pinacoteca, with its breathtaking views over the St. Peter’s Dome, the Gregorian Profane Museum, Raphael Loggia, the Cortile della Pigna (courtyard of the pine cone), part of the much older Cortile del Belvedere, and also in the so called Braccio Nuovo, a masterpiece of Rome neoclassical architecture.

Here below please find the detailed Vatican events scheduled for October 2010:

  • Friday October 1st «Arte della leggerezza e leggerezza nell’arte” with music by Barber, Grieg, Debussy and Milhaud (Terrazze della Pinacoteca)
  • Friday October 8th : « Spes mea cara. Omaggio a Maria» with Maestro Luca Salerno (Salone di Raffaello)
  • Friday October 15th «Australian Night» meetings with the aboriginal australian culture and show performed by local aboriginal australians with introduction by Nereda White (Terrazze della Pinacoteca enhanced by a visit to Missionary Ethnological Museum
  • Friday October 22nd Traditional Russian music conducted by the Moscow’s Cathedral Choir (Cortile della Pigna-Propilei enhanced by a visit to the Icons’ Room in The Vatican Pinacoteca museum)
  • Friday October 29th Il Bel Canto at the Museum with music from Verdi’s Il Trovatore

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May 27

Tour Rome | Contemporary Art Museums and Events in Rome

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Rome Newest Museum | Rome Art Exhibitions 2010

The end of May 2010 marks the beginning of a new era for the Eternal City projecting Rome into the world of avant-garde art and architecture. The cradle of Classicism and Baroque, revered for its past and wealth of art and architecture, Rome now looks toward to take her place among the capitals of contemporary art alongside New York, Paris and London with new contemporary museums and contemporary art events.

The first event is the long awaited opening of MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Art designed by the Anglo-Iranian architect Zaha Hadid, which takes place on May 30 with the launch of the project “Space”, the first thematic display of collections of art (Alighiero Boetti, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Sol Lewitt, Giuseppe Penone, Grazia Toderi, and Francesco Vezzoli among others) and architecture inspired by the fluid forms of Zaha Hadid as an interpretation of the museum’s interdisciplinary vocation. It took 11 years and 150 million euros to build the coiled, concrete 27,000 square meter structure dubbed “the silvery boa” that houses two museums, MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture, and provides areas for live performances. Here follow a photo gallery from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. To enjoy ItalyTravelista’s MaXXI photo gallery visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125761&id=1518296367&l=4b0a747a19

Two other exceptional events taking place from May 27 to 30 will make of Rome the global capital of contemporary art, at least for a week.

Prior to the official opening of Macro Summer on June 1st modern art lovers on May 29 and 30 have the opportunity to tour the new wing of MACRO, Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, which will offer additional space with respect to the gallery housed in the old Peroni beer distillery. Beside enjoying the beautiful new wing designed by Odile Decq visitors will also be able to preview the exhibits in MACRO’s Via Reggio Emilia galleries. These include: “Aaron Young: Slippery When Wet”, “Jacob Hashimoto: Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness”, “Jorge Peris: Micro, Aureo, Adela”, “João Louro: My Dark Places”, “Oscar Savio: Architecture in Black and White” while works by three Italians, Gilberto Zorio, Luca trevisani and Alfredo Pirri, complete the line up.

The other event is the 3rd edition of the international art fair and festival “Roma. The Road to Contemporary Art”. This four-day art fair, held in the pavilions of the former Testaccio slaughterhouse, will host around 70 international galleries offering a rich program of events, starred chef’s dinners, guided tours, meetings, conversations, presentations, artistic and musical performances, concerts, dj-sets, and video projections to animate daily the fair grounds at Macro Testaccio. Beside the Fair coordinates a set of events and exhibitions held around Rome. Cose Mai Viste (Things you have never seen), Accademia delle Accademie, Spirito, hosted in the Monumental complex of Santo Spirito in Sassia, Piazza d’Arte at the Casa dell’Architettura-Acquario Romano and the new program Academies Feast developed in cooperation with 9 among the most important international Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome.

Despite nearly three thousand years of history Rome still has the strength to reinvent herself offering exciting new art venues and events amid the glories of antiquities.

MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Art
via Guido Reni, 4a
www.maxxi.parc.beniculturali.it

MACRO
Via Reggio Emilia, 54
www.macro.roma.museum

Roma. The road to contemporary art
MACRO Testaccio
Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4
www.romacontemporary.it

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Mar 18

Art Exhibitions in Rome 2010 | Italy Art Lovers

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Rome 2010 Art Exhibitions | Caravaggio Landmark Rome Exhibition

If you are planning to visit Rome in 2010 and love ancient Roman art, Caravaggio’s masterpieces or modern American artists allow some extra time between the Roman Colosseum and the Vatican Museums to enjoy these outstanding exhibitions. Herebelow find a (Non-Complete) List of what’s going on in Rome in 2010. For the complete listing prior to your trip to Italy come back to see ItalyTravelista updates.

CARAVAGGIO | February 20 > June 13, 2010

The Caravaggio’s exciting exhibition on view at the Scuderie del Quirinale (Quirinal Stables, also called Papal Stables) to mark the 400th anniversary of the Baroque master’s death when he was only 39 brings together for the first time from art galleries and museums across the world 24 paintings that have been definitely attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. For more details visit my previous Caravaggio’s post and make sure you book your tickets online to avoid disappointing long lines. This landmark exhibition is a must if you’re planning a trip to Rome.

EDWARD HOPPER | February 16 > June 13, 2010

Following on from a hugely successful showing in Milan, this exhibition on view at the Museo Fondazione Roma features the work of American artist Edward Hopper. Over 170 of Hopper’s rural and urban scenes of the 20th Century American life are on display in specially designed rooms that evoke the sights, sounds and feelings he so carefully portrayed. Among the masterpieces on show Self-Portrait 1925-1930, The Sheridan Theatre (1937), New York Interior (1921 circa), Seven A. M. (1948), South Carolina Morning (1955) together with Summer Interior (1909), Pennsylvania Coal Town (1947), Morning Sun (1952), Second Story Sunlight (1960), A Woman in the Sun (1961) and the stunning Girlie Show (1941).

Edward Hopper Exhibition in Rome | Tour Rome 2010

ANCIENT ROME: The AGE of CONQUEST | March 13 > September 05, 2010

Until September 5th the Capitoline Museums set in the Michaelangelo’s Capitoline square host an amazing exhibition of ancient art dating from the 3rd C. to the 1st Century B.C., a time when Greek influence became predominant to involve the whole cultural world of the Roman Empire and the key to the future Roman artistic and cultural identity. The most avid collectors of Greek art were the Romans, who decorated their town houses and country villas with Greek sculptures and by the first century B.C. Rome was the center of Hellenistic art production, and numerous Greek artists came there to work. The show includes marbles, impressive sculptures and friezes, bronze and silver decorations and terracotta works brought together from major museums like the Copenhagen museum and the British Museum in London.

Navona Square in Rome | Greece and the development of Western art

From COROT to MANET: The SYNPHONY of NATURE | March 05 > June 29, 2010

The Vittoriano Complex (A.K.A. the Typewriter or Wedding Cake) brings together over 170 paintings, drawings and early photographs never shown before in Italy with the aim of exploring the complex and changing relationship between 19th and early 20th century French artists, the French society of the day and the natural world they sought to capture on canvas.

MORGANTINA TREASURES | March 10 > May 23rd, 2010

Palazzo Massimo Museum, part of the National Museum of Rome, hosts until May 23rd the Morgantina silver horde that was looted from Sicily in 1996, smuggled out of Italy, and bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The silver treasure from Morgantina that have been on show at The Met until 2006 comes from the Greek colony of Morgantina in Sicily where it was buried in the year 212 B.C. when Morgantina was under siege by the Romans. The Palazzo Massimo Museum is beautifully lit, with English descriptions, hosting entire rooms of frescoes, statues that are among the most famous in the world, and beautiful mosaics from Hadrian’s and other villas: Palazzo Massimo alle terme is the right place to experience the grandeur of ancient Rome.

William Klein’s Rome | Until July 25th

In 1956 Federico Fellini invited photographer and film maker William Klein to Rome to work on his new film “Nights of Cabiria” introducing Klein to La Dolce Vita of Rome. The photos he took as he travelled the streets and clubs perfectly capture the magical atmosphere of the Eternal City in that legendary in that legendary “Dolce vita” era.  Set aganist the backdrop of the recently restored Trajan’s Market this exhibition features 60 of these photos, recreating scenes of street demonstrations or fashion sets, Sunday outings to Ostia, or evening promenades through the Roman Forum.

Giorgio De Chirico | April 9 > July 11, 2010

The exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni includes over 120 De Chirico’s paintings brought together from museums and private collections from all over the world. The artworks explore his vision of nature and divided into seven themes: Myths, Shadows, Rooms, Things, Open, Alive, and anti-Nature. A Must see exhibition for the Metaphysical Art lovers, one of the most significant and fertile cultural movements of the 20th century.

TAPESTRY: The Story of Joseph | April 29 > June 30, 2010

The Quirinal Palace, official residence of the President of the Italian Republic and one of the most beautiful palaces in Rome, hosts a free exhibition showcasing the 30 years restoration work on twenty precious tapestries commissioned by Cosimo dè Medici to two leading artists of the Florentine Renaissance, Jacopo da Pontormo and Agnolo Bronzino. The Old Testament tale of Joseph, one of the most influential rulers in Egypt was seen as a symbol for the powerful Medici dynasty. Closed on Mondays.

Other major exhibitions in Rome in 2010 include Leonardo da Vinci and The Genius of his Inventions until April 30th 2010, the opening of the MaXXi museum on May 30th, Piranesi until April 4th, and the Secret of the Marbles opening on December 16th 2000.

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Feb 20

Caravaggio 2010 Rome Exhibition | The Dark Genius of Caravaggio

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2010 Rome Travel | Caravaggio Exhibition in Rome

Caravaggio Exbition in Rome

Opens today at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome an amazing Caravaggio exhibition to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the great baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, hailed by many as the father of modern painting.

The Caravaggio exhibition in Rome brings for the first time together from galleries and museums across the world only those masterpieces historically verified to be by Caravaggio. Thus visitors will enjoy one of Caravaggio earliest masterpieces “The Boy with a Basket of Fruit” (1593) alongside his famous “Bacchus” (c.1595) from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the lesser known still life “Basket of Fruit” (c.1599) which has never before traveled out of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

Among the 24 masterpieces art lovers visiting Rome will admire “David with the Head of Goliath” (c.1610) from the Borghese Gallery in Rome, the “Musicians” (1595) from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the “Lute Player” (c.1596) from the Hermitage in St.Petersburg, “Amor Vincit Omnia” (1601-1602) from the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, and the newly discovered “Taking of Christ” (c.1602) from the National Gallery of Ireland. Unfortunately due to disagreements won’t be part of the show “Saint Catherine of Alexandria” from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and the huge “The Burial of Saint Lucia” from the Santa Lucia Church in Siracusa.

Caravaggio exhibition at the Scuderie Papali del Quirinale is open every day with the following opening hours until June 13th 2010:

Monday to Thursday 9:30am to 8:00pm
Friday 9:30am to 10:30pm
Saturday 9:00am to 10:30pm
Sunday 9:00am to 8:00pm

Admission is allowed until one hour before closing time.

Caravaggio All Night Long

12-13 June: Caravaggio All Night Long

To mark the last weekend of the Caravaggio exhibition, the Scuderie del Quirinale will be open without a break from 9 am on Saturday morning to 10 pm on Sunday evening.

Reservations can be made for night time visits (from midnight on Saturday to 8 a.m. on Sunday morning). A single admission price of € 7.50 will apply.

Tickets cost Euro 10,00 and Caravaggio Card E.20,00

When in Rome if you are planning to enjoy more Caravaggio gems visit The Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi in Porta Pinciana to admire “Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto” the only mural ever done by Caravaggio, the Church of St. Louis of the French to admire the cycle of paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, painted by Caravaggio in 1599-1600 about the life of St. Matthew, and the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo to visit the Cerasi Chapel and admire the “Crucifixion of St. Peter” and “Conversion on the Way to Damascus”.

Tickets, Location & Info:

Scuderie del Quirinale

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Feb 17

Barracco Museum in Rome | Rome Off the Beaten Path Attractions

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Ancient Rome Art Lovers | Barracco museum in Rome

Just off Camp de Fiori in the heart Rome an enchanting Renaissance palace designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger between 1516 and 1523 houses the little known Barracco Museum and its fine collection of priceless ancient sculptures.

The Museo Barracco located in the Farnesina Palace on the Street of the trunk makers features a prestigious collection of sculptures and art from ancient civilizations including Assyrian, Egyptian, Cypriot, Phoenician, Etruscan, Greek and Roman works, which Giovanni Barracco, a rich Italian nobleman, donated to the Municipality of Rome in 1904.

Museo Barracco in Rome | Rome museums off the beaten track

Portrait of a woman from Palmyra Third Century A.D.

The Barracco museum hosts over 400 artworks, all very attractive, and makes a great half day tour in Rome just off the beaten path right between Campo dè Fiori and Navona square! The Barracco Museum due to its size and location offers families with kids and teens an alternative to bigger museums in Rome while providing an excellent introduction to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and history.

Barracco Museum in Rome | Most of the original Greek works are Attic (V and IV century BC), the region of Athens.

Greek works at the Barracco Museum in Rome | Rome museums

The course of the Rome museum visit begins with the Egyptian art, followed by the Mesopotamian, Cypriot and Etruscan art, ending with the Greek-Roman art, including Greek originals from the 5th Century BC, Roman remakes of Greek originals and Roman Art.

The Greek collection at the Barracco museum provides an in-depth overview of the great sculptor Polyclitus and his school. Roman art is represented by the head of a boy from the Julian family, an elegant example of private portraiture from the early imperial era (First Century AD).

Barracco Museum | Ephebus by Policleto

Barracco Museum | Ephebus by Policleto

This historical journey through the evolution of ancient sculpture, which Baron Barracco called in one of his writings “the mother of all arts”, ends with a polychrome mosaic of the Church of Rome, the famous Ecclesia Romana, from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter in Rome.

Barracco Museum in Rome | Nero Child

Barracco Museum in Rome | Nero Child First Century A.D.

INFO:

Museo Barracco

Corso Vittorio Emanuele 166/A – 00186 Roma

Opening hours Tuesday-sunday 9.00am-7.00pm; 24th and 31st of December 9.00am-2.00pm (the ticket office closes an hour in advance)

Closed Monday, 1st January, 1st May and 25th December

What’s Nearby for Foodies:

Roscioli Restaurant & Deli | Via dei Giubbonari

Enoteca Corsi | Via del Gesu’ 87 | Tel. 066 790821

Forno di Campo de Fiori

Enoteca Cul de Sac

Casa Bleve

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Barracco Museum in Rome | Romana Ecclesia from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter

Barracco Museum in Rome | Romana Ecclesia from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter

A short stroll from Campo dei Fiori Market: The Barracco museum an off the beaten track attraction in Rome.

Barracco Museum | Campo de Fiori

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