SCUOLA GRANDE DI S. ROCCO E BASILICA ...
Half Day Tour in Venice
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is the best preserved of the six Scuole Grandi (Major Guilds), that for many centuries were considered the leading institutions for charity and devotion in Venice. In the seat of the brotherhood (built from 1517 to 1549) Jacopo Tintoretto left the masterpiece of his lifetime: a group of 64 paintings realized in the span of 24 years, also including the amazing Crucifixion (a painting on canvas almost 13 meters long) and his most fascinating and "mysterious" works, St. Mary Magdalen and .......
BORGHESE GALLERY
Half Day Tour in Rome
The Galleria Borghese is one of the top museums in Rome, and this is a very special tour that will make you experience unique sensations. The Gallery is located in the gorgeous Villa Borghese park, and it displays, among the other art treasures, some masterful marble sculptures by Gianlorenzo Bernini like "Apollo and Daphne" and "Pluto abducting Prosperpine". The history of the museum goes back to the early 17th century, when the art patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese ......
COLONNA GALLERY
Half Day Tour in Rome
The Galleria Colonna is one of the few surviving private museums that is still administrated by the same noble family. Walking through its rooms is like going back in time, learning about the glorious past of the Colonna (who owed their fortunes to the cardinal Ottone, elected pope in 1417 with the name of Martin V) and enjoying their great taste for art as they had put together a sensational collection of paintings and ancient statues. The Gallery stunning fresco decoration .....
VILLA FARNESINA
Half Day Tour in Rome
Villa Farnesina, in the heart of Trastevere, is the right place if you want to breathe the atmosphere of a real Renaissance residence. His owner, the banker Agostino Chigi (1466-1520), was the wealthiest man of his days, a great patron of arts and a big party lover. His villa was designed according to Vitruvius principles by the fashionable architect and painter Baldassarre Peruzzi, and the fresco decoration was realized by his good friend ........