private Walking Tours of Rome
CARAVAGGIO'S ROME
Doria Pamphilj Gallery - St Luigi dei Francesi
- Santa Maria del Popolo - Palazzo Barberini
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your private tour of Caravaggio's Rome focuses on both this intensive art production and on the environment where he lived a sometime turbulent life. your tour starts with his early days in Rome. the humble living places where he first sheltered, the workshops of those who gave him his first opportunities, the taverns and gambling alleys where he mixed with fellows artists, the brothels from where some of his models came from. visit the area where his first masterpieces were produced. The churches of San Luigi dei Francesi with his "Call of Matthew" panels and Sant' Agostino with his naturalistic and .touching "Pilgrims Madonna". Nearby patrician residences that welcomed the artist and some of his works, lively Piazza Navona with art merchants stores where some of his early works were sold,. wine taverns and "pallacorda" courts, Caravaggio's frequent gambling venues A short distance away, along baroque Rome graceful back streets, Piazza del Popolo and the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo home to Caravaggio's realistic "Crucifixion of Peter" and "Paul Vision". end with visits to the Doria Pamohili palace gallery,with Caravaggio's "Flight into Egypt" youthful masterpiece and "Repentent Magdalene" and to the Barberini Palace with his dramatic "Judith and Holofernes" and "Narcisus".
serving English speaking visitors to Rome Vatican Italy since 1996
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