(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 07 - The paintings by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, an unrivaled collection by Caravaggio, the sculptures directly commissioned to Bernini. Cultured, rich and powerful, Scipione Borghese, the cardinal to whom the splendid villa that now houses the gallery of the same name belonged, was an unrivaled collector, in love with art to the point of chasing it without scruples. And who knows what he would say today, finding both you and you with the 80 works by Damien Hirst, the most celebrated and controversial artist of our time that tower in his majestic atrium and invade every room in a game of dialogue and references with the most loved pieces of his collection , the gold or malachite or bronze medusas in the room of the six Caravaggio, the two large unicorn heads in front of the Raphaeles,two menacing cerberi who seem to growl at the rape of Proserpin who is touched by Bernini. Entitled "Archeology now", the exhibition that opens from 8 June to 7 November in the prestigious Roman museum, crowds a collection of contemporary works from the Baroque that in reality show perfectly in theme with the dream of Cardinal Scipione and the ideas of the artists who made the his court.
And here, side by side and often even camouflaged among the works of the past, almost as if they had always been part of the Borghese collection, fabulous characters meet in these rooms, already incredible for the number of masterpieces but also for the splendor of architecture and decorations. , mythological subjects, refined and highly cultivated reworkings of archaeological experts, the result of the unbridled imagination of the Leeds artist, with the exhibition of a marvelous technique that emerges in large canvases as in sculptures from precious materials, gold and silver, marble, bronze and then rock crystal , coral, semiprecious stones. (HANDLE).
