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Rebuilding The Renaissance

Nov 26, 2025

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...


Nov 19, 2025

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,...


Nov 12, 2025

From my opinion on the recently discovered paintings attributed to Caravaggio, to the influence of Hadrians Villa on Borrominis architecture, to a possible connection between Caravaggios Burial of St. Lucy and the movie "Schindlers List, to why Michelangelos David is more famous than...


Nov 5, 2025

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...