6/7/2012
Villa Borghese
The Villa Borghese is the most impressive place I have visited during my stay in
Rome. The paintings and sculptures are exquisite. I had never been to any place
that held so much beauty in one building. The Vatican museum might rival it,
but the ambiance is completely different. Looking at the pictures was much
easier without having thousands of tourists rushing through. I also like the
fact that they don't allow cameras. I love to have photographs but sometimes i
get carried away taking pictures and I forget to truly enjoy the essence of my
visit. There were no distractions. As far as I was concerned there was only me
and those magnificent works of art.
I was
pleasantly surprised to discover that it was not Bernini, as I originally
thought, but Caravaggio who stole my breath away and brought tears to my eyes.
His work is marvelous. I was feeling beside myself, as if I had gone into a
trance as I was trying to interpret the meaning of his work. There is so much
emotion an mystery attached to this pictures. Caravaggio must have known that
his pictures would provoke different emotions and reactions within the viewers.
He left much to the imagination, and he was not afraid to use controversial
subjects either.
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Borghese is a true testament to the renaissance era, and I would love to
go back some day. I want to have the opportunity to look at all these paintings
and sculptures at least once more in my lifetime.
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