Galleria Borghese, piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5. Info 06328101
Until 27 Aug: 10 grandi mostre: Raffaello. Da Firenze a Roma
The first of a series of major exhibitions that will take place once a year at the Galleria Borghese until 2015 and that will include the following artists: Canova (2007), Correggio (2008), Bacon-Caravaggio (2009), Dossi (2010), Tiziano (2011), Cranach (2012), e ancora Bernini (2013), Domenichino (2014) and "I Borghese e l'antico (The Borgheses and the ancient world)" (2015). For this particular exhibition on Raphael the art gallery will show his ultra-famous "Deposition", as well as works from different museums. The "Madonna of the Candelabra" is on loan from Baltimore, the "Aldobrandini Madonna", "Saint Catherine" and "The Knight's Dream" from London, and the "Madonna with Child, St Jerome and St Francis" on loan from Berlin. This extraordinary exhibition will also include an important series of paintings and drawings by the artist. Tue-sun h9-19. €10,50
Braccio di Carlo Magno del Colonnato del Bernini, piazza San Pietro. Info 0669898116
Until 30 Jul: Guardia Svizzera Pontificia (The Papal Swiss Guard)
One of the initiatives celebrating 500 years since the arrival of the Papal Swiss Guard in Rome, this exhibition examines the guards and their role within the Vatican in detail. A series of objects, photos and footage are on display and illustrate the development this institution has had from the 16th century to the present day.
Colosseo, piazza del Colosseo. Info 0639967700
Until 20 Aug: Musa pensosa. L'immagine dell'intellettuale nell'antichità (The thinking muse. The intellectual in antiquity)
The muses are a source of inspiration and creative fount in every field of knowledge, from music to poetry, from philosophy to art. In Greek mythology they are imagined as the beautiful daughters of Zeus: Calliope, Erato, Terpsichore, Clio, Thalia, Urania. They will be brought to life in the Amphitheatre of Flavius, which will exhibit bas-reliefs, frescoes, mosaics, statues, portraits and marble sarcophaguses. €4. h8,30-19,15
Musei Capitolini, piazza del Campidoglio, 1. Info 0682059127
Until 27 Aug: Scultura lignea russa (Russian wood carving and sculpture)
An exhibition of marvellous carved wooden sculptures and icons made in Russia between the 10th and 19th centuries and embroidered fabrics, on loan from the most important museums in Moscow - the Kremlin's Andrei Rublev museum of Early Russian Culture and Art and the Grabar Institute. These examples of popular art enlighten us on the daily life and religiousness of the Russian people.
Scuderie del Quirinale, via Ventiquattro Maggio. Info 0639967500
From 14 Jul to 27 Aug: Wim Wenders. Immagini dal pianeta terra (Wim Wenders. Images from planet earth)
Wenders is a great film director but also a great photographer. About 60 of his shots will be on show in this exhibition, some of them in a large 5m format. Wenders loves to travel with his camera and immortalise landscapes and sights that touch him. In all the images man is almost completely absent. The shots capture moments without giving them a context, freezing scenery in time in order to keep its essence intact.
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Complesso del Vittoriano, Sala Giubileo. Via San Pietro in Carcere. Info 066780664
Until 5 Jul: Le mille e una seta (The thousand and one silks)
Danilo Maestosi's one-man show is a triumph of Eastern atmospheres exuded from the very different creations - oils on canvas, acrylics on canvas, pastels, collages - on display. In his work Maestosi speaks of dreams and memories, stories in which the line between reality and fiction is blurred, in which it is possible to admire the mustard colour of desert sand, the red dusks and the stars of the African skies.
Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Sala Regia - Sala delle Battaglie, Via del Plebiscito
Archivio Centrale dello Stato, piazzale degli Archivi, 27. Info 063236254
Until 12 Jul: Renato Meneghetti
Meneghetti's first Roman exhibit. Bonito Oliva curates these exhibits on the evils of our time, with loud colours, delicate plates, pacifist sculptures, ceramics and a series of paintings called "Radiographs".
Accademia di Francia - Villa Medici, viale Trinità dei Monti, 1. Info 066761291
Until 16 Jul: Il colore si stende asciuga spessice, si riposa (Colour is applied, it dries, thickens and rests)
A unique procedure that brings about unique creations such as those of Ettore Spalletti: the artist uses wood on which he spreads powder of plaster-like consistency and colours in various blues, greys and pinks. The colouring process is not decorative in intent but becomes a protagonist, taking on its own form and structure in the work. Villa Medici is filled with paintings, sculptures and extremely evocative spaces in which, as Spalletti himself says, "the colour looks for more colour inside". Tue-sun h11-19. €8, reduced €4,50
Sala Santa Rita, via Montanara, adiacente piazza Campitelli. Info 0667105568
Until 27 Jul: Varie umanità. La contemporaneità nel fumetto indipendente (Varied humanities. Contemporary life in the independent comic)
Maurizio Ribichini, Davide Reviati and Stefano Misesti are part of the most free and independent strain of Italian contemporary comic creators. They all have different styles and are interested in different themes but are all united by a desire to represent contemporary society in all its various facets. The creations of these three artists born in the 60s have afforded an autonomous and expressive dignity to the comic, which is often perceived or written off as an entertainment sub-genre. Mon-fri h10-18. Admission free
Auditorium Parco della Musica, viale P. de Coubertin. Info 0680241281
Until 30 Jul: Star d'autore. I grandi fotografi raccontano il cinema (Cinema as Seen by Photographers)
Questa l'essenza e la finalità degli scatti che immortalano i set cinematografici: osservandoli ci troviamo a respirare gli attori, le scene, l'aria del film. In mostra all'Auditorium le fotografie realizzate dai più quotati reporter on the scene, come Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Dennis Stock, e ancora Eve Arnold e Cartier-Bresson. Questi maestri della macchina fotografica hanno catturato nei loro ritratti le divinità dell'olimpo cinematografico, da Marilyn Monroe a Sophia Loren fino a Humphrey Bogart. Mon-fri h17-21; sat and sun h11-20. Admission free
Casa dei Teatri, Villa Doria Pamphilj - largo 3 giugno 1849 - angolo via di San Pancrazio (ingresso Arco dei Quattro Venti). Info 0645440707
Until 6 Aug: ... sognare, forse ... Il costume shakespeariano nel repertorio della Sartoria Farani (...to dream, maybe... Shakespearean costumes by the Farani costume-designers)
The famous Farani costume-designers are showing more than thirty costumes made by seven different dressmakers, as well as models and stage photos by Tommaso Le Pera of seven different Shakespeare plays. The gem of the show is the costume worn by Richard Burton in 'The Taming of the Shrew' directed by Franco Zeffirelli at the end of the 1960s. This is a fascinating exhibition that allows us insight into those performances where the costume is all-important, as well as symbolic and tangible in its function. Tue-sun h10-19. Admission free
GNAM Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, viale delle Belle Arti, 131. Info 0632298221
Until 10 Sep: Galileo Chini. Dipinti, decorazioni, ceramica e teatro (Galileo Chini. Paintings, decorations, ceramics and theatre)
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death this great and multi-facted artist is awarded a major retrospective. The Florentine artist draws energy and inspiration from Art Nouveau, the Viennese Secession and Siam for his works: pottery, paintings, glasswork, theatrical pieces. The decorative way in which he signs his works are often eastern in inspiration. On show are an array of preparatory cartoons, studies and sketches, expressionist paintings, Chinese and Thai artefacts (clothing, theatrical masks, objects, period photos), models for theatre stage settings, ceramic pieces and posters. Tue-sun h8,30-19,30. €9
Complesso del Vittoriano, Gipsoteca, Scalee, Sala Zanardelli. Via San Pietro in Carcere. Info 0669202049
Until 20 Sep: L'Italia. Paesaggio e territorio (Italy: Landscape and Territory)
One of the exhibitions that is part of the "Le radici della nazione (The roots of the nation)" project, a series of exhibitions lasting until the year 2011 - the year marking the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity - that aim to explore Italian unity in a variety of cultural ways. A series of creations, among which paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, maps, aerial (and other) photographs and geological finds will be on show at the Vittoriano museum and will enable visitors to examine how landscape representation has evolved from the 16th century to today. h9,30-18,30. Admission free
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, piazza Sant'Egidio, 1b. Info 065816563
Until 24 Sep: Born Somewhere
Francesco Zizola tells us of the life of children encountered in thirty countries through 90 photos. This award-winning genius of the camera and winner of a World Press Photo award in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2005 presents thirteen years of work. Zizola has taken photos of children in countries such as Angola, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mozambique, Kenya, Japan, United States and Africa. And in turn these children allow us to see - in magnified form - what the part of the world they live in is like, and what is happening over there. Tue-sun h10-20. Museum + exhibition: €6, reduced €5
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, piazza Sant'Egidio, 1b. Info 065816563
Until 24 Sep: Le donne di Trastevere. Fotografie di Emilio Gentilini The women of Trastevere. Photographs by Emilio Gentilini)
The Trastevere of the 1970s, its women and its faces, are shown in this exhibition. Emilio Gentilini took more than a hundred photos while simply wandering around the neighbourhood, going to its restaurants and bars, walking through its small medieval streets. He snapped its palazzi and the changes happening at that time in the city. Tue-sun h10-20. Museum + exhibition: €6, reduced €5
MACRO Museum, via Reggio Emilia, 54. Info 06671070400
Until 30 Sep: Marc Quinn
This summer the MACRO museum of contemporary art in Rome offers us a retrospective of this English artist who was a major exponent of the Young British Art Scene back in the 1930s. Thirty works explore the fragility of the human body through a powerful and expressive language made up of organic materials. Tue-sun h9-19. €1
MACRO Mattatoio, piazza O. Giustiniani. Info 06671070400
Until 30 Sep: Christian Boltanski - EXIT
French artist Christian Boltanski has created a striking and powerful installation that speaks of life and death. The commission was especially intended for one of the two pavilions of the museum's (Mattatoio) space, located in the heart of the Testaccio district. EXIT is the very concise name given to this multi-sensorial experience composed of hundreds of garments hanging from the ceiling, while all around them images of historic events are screened, loudspeakers resonate with recorded voices and the lighting changes continuously. Tue-sun h16-24. €1
Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese. Viale F. La Guardia. Info 0682059127
Until 1 Oct: Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville - The Bilotti Chapel
Three contemporary artists inaugurate the Bilotti museum space. Damien Hirst, a specialist in the art of desecrating myths, finds his inspiration in the four evangelists and creates very large works using varied materials such as pills, butterflies and pages from the Gospels. David Salle, on the other hand, reinterprets the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in a modern key. Finally, Jenny Saville, the English artist who lives between London and Palermo, has created three large canvases drawing inspiration from the insight of suffering as a means of expiation and catharsis. Tue-sun h9-19. Museum + exhibition: €6, reduced €4
Museo Centrale del Risorgimento al Vittoriano, Ala Brasini. Via San Pietro in Carcere. Info 066793598
Until 8 Oct: Tesori di carta. L'archivio del Museo Centrale del Risorgimento a 100 anni dalla fondazione (Paper treasures from the Archives of the Museo del Risorgimento on its 100th Anniversary)
The Museo del Risorgimento is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary and has decided to highlight this momentous occasion with an exhibit displaying a series of original documents from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Amongst the many works on show, there is a sonnet autographed by Belli, a memo written by Napoleon while in exile, Volta's notes on the battery and a code to decipher messages by members of the Carbonari movement. h9,30-17,30. Admission free
GNAM Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, viale delle Belle Arti, 131. Info 0632298221
Until 9 Oct: Elisa Montessori. Shangai Blues
Elisa Montessori is an experimental designer and painter always embarking on new roads, moving between incision, egg tempera, mosaic and jewellery. Minimalism, as well as an obvious love for Eastern cultures, emerges from the artist's work, which transmits messages riddled with esoteric and spiritual messages. Montessori, famous for her flowers, white passages and horizontal lines, is exhibiting at the GNAM. Tue-sun h8,30-19,30. Museum + exhibition: €9
Castel Sant'Angelo, lungotevere Castello, 50. Info 066819111
Until 29 Oct: Roma Barocca: Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona
Organised as a visual journey thought the most important places in the city of Rome as they were during the papacies of Urban VIII of the Barberinis (1623-44), Innocent X of the Pamphilis (1644-55) and Alexander VII of the Chigis (1655-66), and through the works of Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. In a century marked by political crisis and the marginalisation of the papacy, the Baroque era afforded Rome artistic supremacy in terms of the exceptional revolutionary force of its language: the innovations proposed by Bernini and Borromini were propagated not only in Europe but also in Latin America. Tue-sun h9,30-18. €8, reduced €5,50
Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, piazza San Pantaleo
Until 29 Oct: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Omaggio a Roma - Ritratti (Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tribute to Rome-Portraits)
The eye of the century" was the name given to Cartier-Bresson, a photographer who captured the atmosphere and soul of an era in his work. The subjects of his photos were famous personalities such as Christian Dior and Pablo Neruda, but also simple passers-by and children, views and landscapes. All these elements make up this two-part exhibition, which is accompanied by books, documents and magazines. The simplicity of the style of his photos manages to make the essence and soul of people and places emerge fully. Tue-sun h9-19. €9, reduced €5,50
Museo Carlo Bilotti. Aranciera di Villa Borghese, viale F. La Guardia. Info 0682059127
Apertura del museo Carlo Bilotti (Opening of the Carlo Billotti Museum in the Villa Borghese Orange House)
Rome's town hall has once again offered a great gift to art aficionados by restoring the former Casino dei Giochi d'acqua in Villa Borghese. The building was damaged at the end of the 1800s during the French invasion, losing in this way its decorative elements, and was then subsequently rebuilt and transformed to stock citrus fruit. Now the Aranciera hosts the collection of Italian American art collector Carlo Billotti, inluding works by De Chirico, Andy Warhol, Giacomo Manzù and Larry Rivers; important works that are being given prominence in this impressive new exhibition space. Tue-sun h9-19
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