Galleria Borghese, 2

Our visit to the Borghese continues...

Among the many incredible ancient mosaics; this, a scene from
gladiator school...

Canova's Venus; actually, Napoleon's sis

Reni's Paul Rebukes the Repentant Peter; they 
were always rebuking and repenting all the time

Roman sarcophagus and assorted other sculpture

Bernini's action-oriented David

Reni's David and Goliath

The Apollo and Daphne everyone comes to see;
does any sculpture surpass it?; created for this
very room in the galleria

Bernadino Luini, La Flora; Luini was a disciple
of Leonardo; Luini's works have sometimes been
misidentified as Leonardo's; not this one

Nice door treatment; all the dozens of doors in the
building are so decorated

Reni's Country Dance...documented as part of the Borghese
family collection as early as 1650, in private collections in the
18th and 19th centuries, then acquired in the London antiques
market in 2008 (Fake or Fortune?!) and returned "home" just
lately: the occasion for the Reni exhibition we have been
enjoying

There are two flies depicted in Country Dance: a symbol of
death, melancholy...

Formal garden out back

Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, 1514, muy famoso

Botticelli, Madonna and bambino, with infant (toddler) St. John
(note skins), 1488

Side garden

Oh yes, the trompe-l'oeils: in most every room, worth the price 
of admission by themselves