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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2808984, member: 83956&quot;]IMHO, the best displayed works of art in Rome are found in the Borghese Gallery. Appointments must be made in advance (weeks for spring and summer; days for winter), and a fixed number of persons are allowed in the gallery at one time. This means that you don’t have to elbow your way to the front to see something. Indeed, I think the viewing blocks are something like 3 hours each. Most visitors are done after 1-2 hours. This means that if you take things slow and outlast the rest of the tourists, you can have some of the greatest Renaissance and Baroque art (esp. key Caravaggios) all to yourself for an hour.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bernini’s Rape of Persephone occupies a central palazzo room. Pluto’s hand seems to melt into Persephone’s marble flesh, as if the latter were soft butter. It’s a yoking of eroticism and violence that is simultaneously beautiful and disturbing. The photo was taken by me in January 2016.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]656732[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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