“Once Upon A Time” in the Borghese Gallery. A path to visitors reveals the vaults of the museum – Rome

Roma – Between 1770 and 1800, Prince Marcantonio IV Borghese started an extraordinary redevelopment work that saw a radical transformation of Villa Pinciana.
The flower of painters and sculptors of that time intervened in the decoration of the environments, making the villa a model of stylistic renewal of the European reach, close to the final confirmation of neoclassicism.
In order to be influenced by this restyling, the vaults of the current Villa Borghese were mainly the same that will be the protagonists of a depth -dedicated process dedicated to visitors until 11 April. Entitled “Once Upon At A Time”, led by the museum staff and dedicated to the cycle of painted safes, the route will enable the public to deepen an interesting artistic-architectural aspect that is linked to Villa Borghese.
Visits, free, but with necessary reservations, takes place every day from Tuesday to Friday at 2.30 p.m.
The initiative was established to improve the extraordinary redevelopment work of the villa that was promoted at the end of the eighteenth century by Prince Marcantonio IV Borghese. An extraordinary work, little known, that saw a radical renovation of the building and updating the internal decoration. The assignment was entrusted to Antonio Asprucci, a very talented Roman architect, one of the first to introduce neoclassicism in Rome as an architectural style. Asprucci, who surrounded themselves with a renowned team of Italian and foreign artists, from Gavin Hamilton to Tommaso Conca, from Mariano Rossi to the squares Giovan Battista Marchetti, came up with the surfaces of the environments as scenarios for old and modern margins that are already present in the building.

In the new set -Up he ordered the most important masterpieces of the old sculpture, next toApollo in Daphne By Bernini, according to a new exhibition criterion, which she places in the middle of each room and connects the entire decorative theme with the iconographic core of the sculptural group. Despite the removal of the archaeological sculptures of the old collection of Cardinal Scipione – after the sale imposed by Napoleon on Camillo Borghese in 1807 – and the subsequent nineteenth additions – centuries, still, the decoration of the rooms reflects the criteria of the setup by Antonio Asphucci. The walls began to decorate with marble stucco polycromie, the seventeenth -century open fireplaces were replaced by others called “French”, leaning against the wall, embellished and embellished with precious materials, while the vaults were disappeared from elegant architectural squares, with stucco frames and central paintings, whose subject whose whose has a dialog, whose of whose has a central painting whose whose of whose was.
The entire decorative cycle of the vaults that assumed a descriptive character, intended for the guest of the Villa Pinciana, and aimed at improving the bourgeois family and ancient origins, can now be admired and appreciated thanks to a specially designed path.

The agreement is at the Museum Information Bench, next to the ticket office. The route takes approximately 40 minutes and contains a visit to rooms I, II and III. The entrance to the museum is not entitled to visiting other rooms.