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  • Capitoline Museums Baroque Itinerary

    Capitoline Museums Baroque Itinerary

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    Overview Founded in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of ancient bronze sculptures to the people of Rome, the Capitoline Museums are widely recognized as the world’s oldest public museum. Today, their collections span more than two millennia of artistic achievement, including an outstanding group of Baroque paintings produced during Rome’s seventeenth-century golden…

  • St. Rita Cascia

    St. Rita Cascia

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    In the Basilica di Sant’Agostino in Rome, in the third chapel on the right, you can find The Ecstasy of Blessed Rita da Cascia (1674) by Giacinto Brandi. St. Rita was born in 1381 into a family with strong Christian values. She married Paolo di Ferdinando, and after he was murdered, she prayed constantly so…

  • St. Cecilia

    St. Cecilia

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    In St. Luigi’s church in Rome, the second chapel of the right aisle, is St. Cecilia’s Chapel. On the altar there is a painting of St. Cecilia by Guido Reni. This is a copy of Raphael’s famous painting that is hung in Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. St. Cecilia is known as the patron saint of music…

  • Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin Rejection

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    Much has been written about Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin and its rejection by the Barefoot Carmelites. However, did you know that the painter chosen replace Caravaggio was also rejected on his first attempt? The Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni also depicted the Virgin dead; though she appeared less lifeless than in Caravaggio’s version. He modified…