Columbus Museum of Art travel booklet

THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART

ART ESCAPESART AND ARCHITECTURE

IN THE ETERNAL CITY:

APRIL 2016

Contents

APRIL 8

33 BORGHESE GALLERY34 VILLA GIULIA

APRIL 9

37 ARA PACIS MUSEUM38 BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO39 CASTEL SANT ANGELO40 POPE SIXTUS PLAN42 PARCO DELLA MUSICA

APRIL 10

43 FREE DAY

Contents

APRIL 3

2 MACRO TESTACCIO MUSEUM4 CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI

7 VIA APPIA ANTICA

APRIL 4

9 CAMPO DE FIORI/ IL GHETTO10 VILLA FARNESINA12 ST. PETER’S BASILICA

15 VATICAN MUSEUM

APRIL 5

17 IL TEMPIETTO18 MACRO SALARIO

APRIL 6

23 PALAZZO ALTEMPS24 CRYPTA BALBI25 PALAZZO FARNESE 26 PANTHEON27 CAPITOLINE MUSEUM

APRIL 7

30 OSTIA ANTICA

APRIL 8

33 BORGHESE GALLERY34 VILLA GIULIA

APRIL 9

37 ARA PACIS MUSEUM38 BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO39 CASTEL SANT ANGELO40 POPE SIXTUS PLAN42 PARCO DELLA MUSICA

APRIL 10

43 FREE DAY

APRIL 3MACRO TESTACCIO MUSEUM

CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI

VIA APPIA ANTICA

DAY 1 | APR 32

MACRO TESTACCIO

FORMERLY A 19TH CENTURY SLAUGHTERHOUSE, THE BUILDING WAS REAPPRORIATED IN 2002 AND ASSIGNED AS A MACRO EXHIBITION SPACE MEANT TO ENCOURAGE IN-TEREST IN CONTEMPORARY ART.

ESTABLISHED 1999

OLD FACADE OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE

EXHIBITION SPACE3

DAY 1 | APR 34

CENTRALE MONTEMARTINIESTABLISHED 1997

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Formerly the Giovanni Montemarti-ni Thermoelectric Centre, the indus-trial building was converted into a new exhibition space for the Musei Capitoline in 1997. The first public electric plant in Rome was restruc-tured to house an exhibition open to the public called “The Machines and the Gods”, which featured clas-sical art against a backdrop of in-dustrial achaeology. It positioned two diametrically opposed worlds side-by-side. In 2005, it was decided that the space would permanent-ly be an exhibition hall for the Mu-seio Capotlini’s newer acquisitions.

MUST-SEE WORKS

01. PORTRAIT OF CLEOPATRA | Hellenistic Period

02. COLOSSAL STATUE OF A FEMALE DIVINITY: FEET |101 BC

03. ACROTERIA: WINGED VICTORY | 480-460 BC

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VIA APPIA ANTICARome’s “Queen of Roads” was engineered in the 5th Century B.C., the road was the wid-est and largest of it’s time, spanning about 330 miles from Rome to the port of Brindisi. According to legend, Jesus Christ first ap-peared to St. Peter on the Via Appia Antica.

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APRIL 4CAMPO DE’ FIORI / IL GHETTO

VILLA FARNESINA

ST. PETER’S BASILICA

VATICAN MUSEUM

DAY 2 | APR 48

CAMPO DE FIORI &IL GHETTO

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01. STATUE OF GIORDANO BRUNO Campo de’ Fiori |1889

02. MARKET WINDOW | Campo de’ Fiori

03. CAMPO DE’ FIORI MARKET

04. THE GREAT SYNOGOGUE | The Jewish Ghetto

05. TEATRO MARCELLO | 13 BC

06. PONTE QUATTRO CAPI | 62 BC

VILLA FARNESINA

DAY 2 | APR 410

Baldassarre Peruzzi, Giuliano da Sangallo

1510

Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance palace built for Agostino Chigi, a wealthy Sienese bank-er and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Unlike typical palazzos, which faced the street and enclosed a courtyard, this villa was designed with a U-shaped plan and a five-bay log-gia between the “arms”. The Villa became property of the Farnese family in 1577. Mi-chelangelo also suggested linking the Vil-la Farnesina to the Palazzo Farnese, across the River Tiber with a bridge. Although the building of the bridge was initiated and remnants of a few arches are still visible, the construction was never completed.

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01. POLYPHEMUSSebastiano del Piombo, 1512

02. CUPID AND THE THREE GRACES Raphael, 1517-1518

03. VILLA FARNESINA AT CAPRAROLACaspar Andriaans van Wittel, 1720-1724

04. THE LOGGIA OF PSYCHE Raphael, 1517-1518

05. THE VOYAGE OF GALATEARaphael, 1511

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ST. PETER’S BASILICA

DAY 2 | APR 412

Donato BramanteMichelangelo Carlo MadernoGian Lorenzo Bernini1506-1626

St. Peter’s Basilica, in Vatican City, is considered the most important Catholic pilrgimige site in the world as well as the most renowned work of the Renaissance. Tradition holds that St. Peter’s is the burial site of St. Peter. His tomb is marked by the high altar of the basilica.

DAY 2 | APR 414

THE VATICAN & THE SISTINE CHAPEL

01. DEPOSITION | Caravaggio, 1604

02. TRANSFIGURATION |Raphael, 1520

03. LAOCOON & HIS SONSUnknown, 27 BC-68 AD | marble

04. AUGUSTUS OF PRIMA PORTAUnknown, 1st C. AD | marble

05. APOLLO BELVEDEREUnknown, 120-140 AD | marble

06. ST. JEROME IN THE WILDERNESSLeonardo da Vinci, 1480

07. SARCOPHOGUS OF JUNIUSBASSUS | 359, marble

08. THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS | Raphael, 1509-1511, detail

09. PERSEUS WITH THE HEAD OF GOR-GON MEDUSA | Antonio Canova, 1757-1822

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APRIL 5IL TEMPIETTO

MACRO Salario

MAXXI

DAY 3 | APR 516

Il Tempietto marks the alleged site of

St. Peter’s martyrdom

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IL TEMPIETTO

BRAMANTE1502

“THE LITTLE TEMPLE”

Squeezed into the court-yard of San Pietro in Mon-torio - also designed by Bramante around the same time - il Tempietto is a free standing, centrally planned builiding crowned with a hemispherical dome meant to symbolize the universe and reflect celestial harmo-ny in its proportions and geometry of pure forms. In designing the Tempiet-to, Bramante took direct influence from the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli.

DAY 3 | APR 518

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome(MACRO)STUDIO ODILE DECQ2007

The first phase of conversion of the MACRO was completed in 1999, with the restoration of the old block of the Peroni brewery, built in the early twentieth century on via Reggio Emilia, and it has re-cently been expanded by the lead-ing French architect Odile Decq.

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The exhibition is devoted to the face and body, with a focus on the face and body of the artist who self-represents or is represented by others. It aims to become a way to deepen and demonstrate what has historically been defined as “genre painting”, with refer-ence to portraits, self-portraits or, in more modern times, to selfies. MACRO invites muse-um-goes to engage with the #MACROEgo hashtag through it’s social media accounts. By actively participating in the exhibit, one becomes both the artist and the work of art!

EGOsuperEGOalterEGOEXHIBITIONS

DAY 3 | APR 520

MAXXIMuseum

ZAHA HADIDMay 2010

Rome’s Museum of Art and Architecture of the XXI Century

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01. WIDOWAnish Kapoor, 2004

02. A PIEDI PARILara Favaretto, 2006

03. ROME 1Spencer Tunick, 2001

04. BLACK JESUS MANMarlene Dumas, 1994

05. STADTBILD (SA 219/1) Gerhard Richter, 1969

06. TRIPLE IGLOOMario Marz, 1984-2002

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APRIL 6PALAZZO ALTEMPS

CRYPTA BALBI

PALAZZO FARNESE

PANTHEON

CAPITOLINE MUSEUM

GAUL KILLING HIMSELF AND WIFE2nd Century AD Roman Copy

LUDOVISI BATTLE SARCAPHOGUS

250-260 BC22 DAY 4 | APR 6

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PALAZZO ALTEMPSGIORAMO RIARIO1477

ATHENA1st Century BC Roman Copy

LUDOVISI THRONE460 BC

CRYPTA BALBIThe portico of the ancient Theater Balbus, built by Lu-cius Cornelius Balbus, was called the Crypta Balbi. To-day it is a location of the National Roman Museum.

DAY 4 | APR 624

PALAZZO FARNESE

MichelangeloStarted in 1514 for the Farnese Family

Ceiling fresco (to right) by Annibale Carracci in the Galleria Farnese, an art gallery. The ceiling is di-

vided into units known as the “quadri riporati” and

turned into a collection of framed paintings, built

directly into the archi-tecture of the building,

challengint the common structure of a gallery

space. The large central scene is a painting of the

triumphal progress of Bacchus and Aradne. The frescoes borrow from the two most revered ceilings

of the Renaissance - Mi-chelangelo’s Sistine Chap-

el ceiling, and Raphaels’ Loggia of Psyche.

HERCULESGlykon

216 AD Roman Copy

THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNECarracci1595

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THE PANTHEONPUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS118-128 AD

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PANTHEONFloor plan

PANTHEONSection

CAPITOLINE MUSEUM Established 1734

DAY 4 | APR 628

The creation of the Capitoline Muse-ums has been traced back to 1471,

when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic

value to the People of Rome. The collections are closely linked to the

city of Rome, and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.

01. CAPITOLINESHE-WOLF5th Century BC

02. BUST OF MEDUSAGian Lorenzo Bernini, 1644-1648

03. COLASSAL HAND OF CONSTANTINE313-324 AD

04. CAPITOLINE VENUSFrom an original by Praxiteles, 4th C. BC

05. STATUE OFCUPID AND PSYCHEGlykon, 2nd C. AD

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APRIL 7OSTIA ANTICA

DAY 5 | APR 730

OSTIA ANTICA The Harbor City of

Ancient RomeA Mediterranean Port

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01. TEATRO DI OSTIA

02. EGAPATHUS’ STORE HOUSES

145-150 AD

03. COLD PLUNGE AT THE BATHS OF THE FORUM

04. MAPS OF OSTIA ANTICA

APRIL 8GALLERIA BORGHESE

VILLA GIULIA

PLUTO AND PORSERPINEGian Lorenzo Bernini1621

DAY 6 | APR 8

01. DEPOSITIONRaphael, 1507

02. DAVID WITH THE HEAD OF GOLIATHCaravaggio, 1610

03. THE TRIUMPH OF DIVINE PROVIDENCEPietro da Cortona, 1642

04. PAULINE BONA-PARTEAntonio Canova, 1808

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GALLERIA BORGHESEEstablished 1903

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VILLA GIULIA

Building designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1551-1553Gardens and nymphaeum designed by Bartolomeo Am-manati under the supervision of Giorgio Vasari

HOME OF THE NATIONAL ETRUSCAN MUSEUM

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01. GRUPPO DI CAVALIERE SU IPPOCAMP550-540 BC

02. URNA A CAPANNA8th C. BC | funurary urn charac-teristic of the Iron Age of Etruria and Lazio

03. CISTA FICORINI350-330 BC

04. CENTAURO 590-580 BC | found in Poggio

05. STATUETTA NURAGICA9th C. BC

APRIL 9ARA PACIS MUSEUM

THE BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO

SIXTUS V PLAN

CASTEL SANT ANGELO

PARCO DELLA MUSICA

ARA PACIS MUSEUMRICHARD MEIER2006

The Ara Pacis Augustae, located inside the museum is an altar dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace. The Altar was commissioned in 13 BC to recognize the return of Augustus to Rome after his time in Hispania and Gaul.

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DAY 7 | APR 9

CRUCIFIXION OF ST. PETERCaravaggio, 1600-1601

THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAULCaravaggio, 1600

CHIGI CHAPELRaphael, 1513

THE BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO

In 1099 a chapel was built by Pope Paschal II over Domitii Ahenobarbi’s tomb. It was enlarged by Pope Gregory XI in 1235 and reconstructed in 1477. The facade was modified by Bernini in 1660.

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CASTEL SANT ANGELO

interiorcourtyard

decoratedroomtunnel

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Otherwise known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian and opened in 139 A.D. It has been used as a for-tress and castle by Popes and today it is a mu-seum. It was once the tallest building in Rome.

DAY 7 | APR 940

01. SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE435 A.D.

02. PIAZZA DEL POPOLO & FLAMINIO OBELISK

1589

03. THE COLOSSEUM70 AD

03. THE FOUR FOUNTAINSDomenicao Fontana

Pietro da Cortona1588-1590

POPE SIXTUS PLAN

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PARCO DELLA MUSICARENZO PIANO2002

Auditorium Parco della Musica is a multi-functional music complex in Rome, Italy with three concert halls, bars, cafes, music and book store, and a museum of antiquities. The complex islocated in the north of the historic center near the 1960 Summer Olympic Games residences. Müller-BBM designed the acoustics; Franco Zagari was landscape architect for the outdoor spaces. Ancient dwellings from the 6th C. B.C., discovered during construction, altered the masterplan and can now be viewed from teh concourse. Theperformance halls are Sala Petrassi with 700 seats; Sala Sinopoli, with 1200 seats; and Sala Santa Cecilia, with 2800 seats. They are structurally separated to ensure soundproofing, and are joined at the base by a continuous lobby. The fan-shaped layout is formed around the central piazza and contains a fourth performance space called the Cavea recalling ancient Greek and Roman theaters.

DAY 7 | APR 942

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