Opening hours: Dailyfrom Monday to Sunday 9 - 20. Closing time: every Monday January 1 , May 1 , December 25 Ticket office closes 1 hour before closing time.
Tickets: Ticket office is in Piazza del Campidoglio, first floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori. On the occasion of temporary exhibitions taking place at Palazzo Caffarelli the ticket price is increased by a small amount and it includes the exhibitions entrance. Ordinary entrance: Full price € 6,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Reduced € 4,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Exhibition entrance: Full price € 4,20 Reduced € 2,60 Capitolini Card: cumulative ticket Musei Capitolini e Centrale Montemartini (valid 7 days) Full € 8,30 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Reduced € 6,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Free Entrance Italian citizens and foreigners with same conditions under 18 and over 65. Teachers and students groups holding a list on headed letter-paper of the School and compulsary reservation.
Informations: Information, reservations and conventions Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - 00186 ROME 06 39967800 Information : 24 hours Bookings : Monday-Saturday 9-13.30; 14.30-17.00 06 39080725 Conventions It is also possible to book on-line
ACCESS FOR DISABLED: In Via del Tempio di Giove a flight of steps lead to the entrance of Portico del Vignola, entering on the first floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori; lifts reach the other palace floors. Tabularium is in Via di S. Pietro in Carcere and from here it is possible to reach through a stair the Galleria di Congiunzione and the ground floor of Palazzo Nuovo. Since these entrancies are normally closed to the public, it is necessary to book in advance by calling ph nr 06-67102071.

Running Exhibition till May 31st 2005
 

The Gallery in Rome holds a large number of seventeenth-century masterpieces (works by Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Jan Bruegel, Jusepe Ribera, Velázquez, Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet), and important Renaissance pieces (Titian, Raphael, Garofalo, Lorenzo Lotto, Pieter Bruegel, Correggio, Parmigianino).

In addition to the pictures, there are also the marble busts (several executed by Alessandro Algardi and Gian Lorenzo Bernini), and a large corpus of antique sculptures, from archaic times to the Hellenistic period.
 

The multifunctional exhibitory site of the Chiostro del Bramante was created and is presently managed by the association, Dart Societa’, which manages the scheduling of shows and different events. Being a cultural production and promotional group, it works in partnership with the City of Rome and the Region of Lazio, as well as with other cultural institutions and public and private, national and international bodies and organizations.
 

In the summer season, the Chiostro del Bramante often becomes the backdrop for the review of the musical arts. Set up in collaboration with the “Estate Romana” annual summer program, these musical reviews usually take place in the courtyard of the cloister, enveloping its guests in a particularly suggestive atmosphere.
 

Al Sigr. Tischbein/Pittore tedesco/al Corso, incontro del/Palazzo Rondanini/Roma". The adress that Johann Wolfgang Goethe sent to his friends in Weimar shortly after he arrived in Rome is now on the itinary for today's visitors to the city. In the very rooms where Goethe stayed with his friend, the German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, from 1786 bis 1788, you can now visit the Casa di Goethe. The 600 - square-meter museum houses a permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions that pay tribute to the celebrated guest.
The Casa di Goethe is an institution of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. (AsKI) in Bonn.
Die Casa di Goethe is the Roman branch of the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V. (GfdS) (Society for German language). In Malcesine (VR) on Lake Garda the Casa di Goethe has created the new documentary exhibition.

Located in one of Rome's grandest aristocratic palaces, this art gallery contains treasures by artists including Raphael and Holbein.


The full title of the gallery is the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (National Gallery of Ancient Art). The setting is incredible - gazing up at the breathtaking fresco in the main hall, it is hard to conceive of the wealth and the power centred here. The fresco, by Pietro da Cortona, dates to 1632 and is a glorification of the Barberini family, and in particular of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, the Barberini who commissioned this extravagant palace to designs by Maderno, Bernini and Borromini.

The art collection here comes from the galleries of Rome's great families and includes works dating from the twelfth century to the eighteenth. One of the most famous paintings on display is Raphael's portrait of La Fornarina. Filippo Lippi's Madonna and Child, (a remarkably ugly pair) is another gem, along with works by Canaletto, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Caravaggio, Sodoma and El Greco.

Due to renovations you may find some parts of the gallery closed, and some paintings hidden from view.

Palazzo Barberini has its main, grand entrance on Via delle Quattro Fontane. The entrance for the gallery's ticket office, however, is hidden around the back of more recent buildings at Via Barberini 18, just yards from Barberini Metro station (Linea A). The gallery is open from 8.30am until 7.30pm (closed Mondays). A ticket costs just over €6. Note that you must leave bags in the lockers provided and refrain from using mobile phones and cameras in the building

THE COLLECTIONS
The museum houses the collection of art works gathered by Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini (nephew of pope Clemens XII, 1730-40) with the advise of his librarian Giovanni Gaetano Bottari (erudite and art historian). The Cardinal was actively engaged in the defense of the Roman artistical heritage and his name is also linked to the foundation of the Capitoline museums and of the Calcografia Nazionale. In 1883 the collection was donated to the Italian State, thus making up the first nucleus of the National Gallery of Ancient Art. In addition to the vast and interesting picture gallery, the collection of ancient sculptures, located on the ground floor entrance hall and along the corridors, is particularly remarkable. Among the most interesting pieces, four very well preserved sarcophagi (the one with the scenes of the Marine Thiasus probably inspired the statues of Fontana di Trevi); a series of busts and two virile statues, one dating from the Trajan period, the other of the Meleagros type (2nd century AD).
THE SITE
Palazzo Corsini was commissioned to architect Ferdinando Fuga (1699-1781) by Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, who in 1736 had acquired the 16th-century Palazzo Riario on via della Lungara. The old building was englobed into the new Palazzo Corsini, with its beautiful double-flight staircase, and the vast entrance hall opening with a triple barrel-vault on via della Lungara.
THE GALLERY
The gallery houses a great number of works, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. The most important pieces on display include: the triptych of the Last Judgement, the Ascension and the Pentecost by Beato Angelico; Saint Sebastian attended by Angels by Rubens; the Madonna of the Straw by Van Dick; The Madonna with Child by Murillo; Saint John the Baptist in the Desert by Caravaggio; the Madonna with Child by Orazio Gentileschi; Ovidius’s Triumph by Nicolas Poussin; Rebecca by the Spring by Carlo Maratta; Blind Homer by P. F. Mola; the Sheperds’ Adoration by Guercino; various paintings by Guido Reni (Salome with the Head of the Baptist, Saint Girolamus, Christ crowned with Thornes, Our Lady of Sorrows, Saint John the Baptist); Jesus among the Doctors by Luca Giordano. A large space is devoted to 17th-century genre painting, among which the Battle and the Drinking Trough, two works by Michelangelo Cerquozzi, the Aqua-vitae Seller and the Seller of Ring-shaped Cakes by J. Lingelbach; landscapes (e.g. those by Gaspar Dughet, by the Master of Birches, by G. P. Pannini) and still-lifes are also well represented, among which those by Abraham Brueghel are of great interest and artistic value. The gallery undoubtedly provides extensive documentation on the development of painting between the 17th and the 18th century, especially in Naples and Rome where, in addition to the Italians, many artists in particular from Northern Europe and Holland also worked.
 

The Galleria Spada, behind the majestic sixteenth century Palazzo Spada, exhibits the Spada family collection of works mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as some second and third century Roman sculptures. Artists in the collection include Rubens, Durer, Caravaggio, Guercino, Domenichino, Guido Reni, Carracci, Salvator Rosa, Passarotti, Parmigianino, Solimena and del Sarto. In the General Council Chamber of the Palazzo is a colossal statue of Pompey, which is traditionally the one at the foot of which Julius Caesar was murdered.

Spada Gallery

- Opening: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Tuesday to Saturday, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Sundays and holidays

The Modern National Gallery houses the most important Italian collection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works by artists belonging to most of the contemporary art movements are represented as well as neo-classicism, romanticism and Tuscan Macchiaoli impressionism. The gallery's exhibits include works by Goya, Géricault, Delacroix, Blake, Renoir, Rossetti, Courbet, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Mondrian, Duchamp, de Chirico, Cara, Miró, Kandinsky and Klimt.

Modern National Gallery

- Opening: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Tuesday to Saturday, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Sundays and holidays

The construction of the magnificent Galleria Colonna in the huge complex of Palazzo Colonna began in 1654 and took 50 years, its grandeur reflecting the nobility of the Colonna family.
The gallery was conceived as a work of art in itself and the magnificent Baroque setting contributes to the presentation of the displayed masterpieces by artists including Lorenzo Monaco, Bronzino, Ghirlandaio, Salviati, Veronese, Palma il Vecchio, Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto, Pietro da Cortona, Annibale Carracci, Francesco Albani, Guercino, Guido Reni, Carlo Maratta, Gaspard Dughet, Crescenzio Onofri, Girolamo Muziano, and Pompeo Batoni.

Galleria Colonna

- Opening: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Saturday, closed August

Keats-Shelley Memorial House

Piazza di Spagna, 26

www.keats-shelley-house.org

Overlooking the Spanish Steps, this is the house where John Keats died. It is now a museum and contains mementos from the lives of Keats, Shelley and Byron as well as a library housing a comprehensive collection of English Romantic literature.

The museum holds special events from time to time 

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO HOUSE-MUSEUM


http://www.fondazionedechirico.it/eng/housemuseum.html

They say that Rome is at the centre of the world and that the Spanish Steps is the centre of Rome, in this case, my wife and I live in the centre of the centre of the world.


The Giorgio de Chirico House-Museum was officially opened to the public on 20th November 1998, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the artist's death.
Giorgio de Chirico's house occupies the three upper floors of the historic 17th Century Palazzetto dei Borgognoni, situated in Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Bought in 1947, the artist and his wife, Isabella Pakzswer Far, lived there from 1948 onwards, during which time they enlarged the house through additional purchases of property.
The building's facade faces Piazza di Spagna where it overlooks Gian Lorenzo Bernini's fountain as well as the everyday going-on's of the art world which, during the years when de Chirico lived there, consisted of the artist workshops on Via Margutta, galleries on Via del Babuino, and the renowned Caffè Greco on Via Condotti.
The back of the house looks onto Trinità dei Monti and Villa Medici, the gardens of which form the setting of a number of de Chirico's romantic and historical paintings.
The artist's studio is located at the top of the house, on a par with the first terrace. Even though it has large windows (which de Chirico tended to keep shut), there is a large sky-light in the ceiling which provided the room with the desired amount of light.
The studio itself is situated very close to the Roman residence of the English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, which has now become the Keats & Shelley Museum.
A few of the plaster-cast models which de Chirico used are scattered around the studio, illuminated by the light which filters down from the glass sky-light in the roof.
The studio library contains a large systematic and rigorous collection of history of art books which touch upon the themes and key artistic periods that de Chirico studied, including 19th Century French Art, Arnold Bõcklin, Peter Paul Rubens, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet and many others.
Whilst organizing the museum, specific scientific and philological attention was given to restoring the rooms. Furnished during the 1950's, both the rooms and the paintings have been kept in the way they were originally arranged although the Foundation's artistic heritage will be displayed on a rotational basis.