Galleria Corsini

The Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy, houses an exceptional collection of Renaissance and Baroque art inside a 17th-century villa in the Villa Borghese park. Its collection includes paintings, sculptures, ancient mosaics and reliefs, assembled largely by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the early 1600s. Artists represented include Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian and Correggio, alongside sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Antonio Canova. The gallery is particularly renowned for Bernini’s dramatic marble sculptures, including *Apollo and Daphne* and *The Rape of Proserpina*, as well as Caravaggio’s paintings and Canova’s portrait of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix. The artworks are displayed across 20 richly decorated rooms, where frescoed ceilings, marble floors and elaborate interiors pre