Borghese Gallery

The Borghese Gallery is an Italian state museum, based in the Villa Borghese Pinciana in Rome. It still houses a large part of the art collection started by Scipione Borghese, cardinal nephew of Pope Paul V, who was also responsible for the construction of the villa itself.

Works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Agnolo Bronzino, Antonio Canova, Caravaggio, Raphael, Perugino, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonello da Messina, Cranach, Annibale Carracci, Pieter Paul Rubens, Bellini, Titian are exhibited there. It can be considered unique in the world in terms of the number and importance of Bernini's sculptures and Caravaggio's canvases.