El parque de Villa Borghese ocupa un area de aprox. 80 hectareas en el corazon de Roma entre los muros aurelianos y los barrios de Pianciano, Parioli y Flaminio. En su interior encierra edificios, esculturas, monumentos y fuentes, obras de ilustres artistas del arte barroco, neoclasico y eclectico, rodeados de arboles seculares, jardines a la italiana y grandes espacios libres. El nucleo mas antiguo de la villa, propiedad de los Borghese desde el 1580, fue ampliado en los primeros años del siglo XVII por deseo del cardenal Borghese que adquirio una serie de viñedos y de terrenos limitrofes con la intencion de crear en ellos una «villa de las delicias» que simbolizara el poder de la familia. En 1606 el cardenal Escipion encargo la realizacion de la villa a los arquitectos Ponzio y Vasanzio, ayudados por el jardinero Savini de Montepulciano y por distintos artistas entre los cuales se hallaban los Bernini. En 1633 la villa estaba practicamente completada y no se aportaron sustanciales cambios hasta el 1766, cuando el principe Marcantonio IV inicio notables obras de transformación que afectaron a los principales edificios, en particular al Casino Noble (actual Galeria Borghese) y al Casino de los Juegos de Agua (actual Jardin de los Naranjos y sede del Museo Carlo Bilotti), y de manera sustancial el parque. La intervencion de mayor relieve fue la realización del Jardin del Lago por obra de los arquitectos Asprucci. Los jardines se decoraron con valiosos elementos ornamentales. En los primeros años del siglo XIX, se completo la ampliacion de la villa con nuevas adquisiciones de terrenos y se encomendo la armonizacion al arquitecto Canina. La hospitalidad de los principes Borghese era bien conocida por el pueblo romano. Durante todo el siglo XIX, la villa estuvo abierta para que el pueblo pudiera pasear por ella y se organizaban espectaculares fiestas populares con musica y baile. En 1901 el estado italiano compro el complejo monumental y en 1903 lo cedio al Ayuntamiento que lo abrio definitivamente al publico.

said wesmfmm 6 months 25 days ago

In Villa Borghese grounds, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, is located and has a collection of 19th and 20th century paintings emphasizing Italian artists. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, or the National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, dedicated to modern art It is located at Via delle Belle Arti, 113, near the Etruscan Museum. With its neoclassical and Romantic paintings and sculptures, it marks a dramatic change from the glories of the Renaissance and ancient Rome. Its 75 rooms house the largest collection of works by 19th- and 20th-century Italian artists including Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Giovanni Fattori, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi, Giacomo Manzù, Alberto Burri, Antonio Canova and Lucio Fontana. The Palazzo delle Belli Arti (1908-11) contains paintings and sculptures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, principally by Italian artists, but also by other Europeans, for example, Courbet, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cezanne and Klimt. The nineteenth century is represented by works that range from the Neoclassical period to purist and historic Romanticism, and by landscape painting from the first Neapolitan School to late Romanticism and Realism. There are also works by the Tuscan Macchiaioli, Divisionists and Eclecticists from the end of the century. The twentieth-century collections include works of the Italian and foreign avant-gardes, masters of the Novecento, the second wave of Futurists, artists of the Roman School, the “Forma 1” group, and painters from the second half of the century.

said wesmfmm 6 months 26 days ago

Villa Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (as Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century. The park was designed at the start of the seventeenth century with two formal enclosures and a third natural “rustic” section. The park features a large number of evergreens, including holm oaks and plane trees (some dating from the original layout), domestic pines (some two hundred years old), firs and cedars. The shrubs include laurel and box.

said wesmfmm 6 months 26 days ago