Rome is known as the Eternal City because of its long history. It is very scenic and the chosen location for The Roman Holiday, La Dolce Vita and There coins in the Fountain. It has many famous sites, rich in architecture and paintings – Pantheon, Roman Forum, Colosseum, castel sant’ Angelo, Vatican,Basilica of St Peter, Trevi Fountain, If Gensu, the Spanish steps, Piazza Navona. Rome is shaped by two important artists Michelangelo and Bernini. This slideshow sketch the development of architecture from the Ancient, to the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque to the modern age.

1. Baroque Rome
The city of Counter Reformation
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River Tiber with the St Peter’s dome behind.

2. Reformation
After the Reformation, Vatican decided a vast program to rebuilt Rome, as a modern Baroque city.

3. St Peter Square designed by Bernini 1656-1657.
Vatican

4. Piazza San Pietro
St Peter Basilica, the centre of the Roman Catholic faith. The basilica was consecrated in 1626.

5. Piazza San Pietro
A statue of St Peter standing outside the basilica holding the key of heaven, given to him by Christ.

6. Facade of San Pietro Basilica

7. The is a row of statues on the roof of the colonnade, surrounding the piazza.

8. St Peter’s Basilica
St Peter Basilica, the ceiling at the main entrance into the basilica.

9. St Peter’s Basilica
St Peter Basilica, the interior entrance.

10. St Peter’s Basilica

11. St Peter’s Basilica

12. The main dome was 132.5 m across. It was completed in 1590 after Michelangelo’s death. .
St Peter’s Basilica

13. St Peter Basilica Dome was designed by Michelangelo, when he was 71.
St Peter’s Basilica

14. Vatican museum
A painting on the ceiling of the galleries. Vatican Museum.

15. Vatican museum
The Map Room corridor at the Vatican museum.

16. Vatican Library Gallery

17. Vatican Library Hall

18. Vatican museum
The gallery of Braccio Nuovo. Vatican Museum.

19. Vatican Museum Garden

20. Vatican Museum Garden

21. Swiss Guards

22. Baroque Rome
Bernini’s Egyption obslisk and marble elephant. Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

23. Galleria Borghese
The Galleria Borghese was built 1613 and holds some of the most important pieces art and paintings in Europe.

24. “The paintings presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolo Aurelio, whose coat of arms appears on the fountain to
celebrate his marriage to a young widow Laura Bagarotto. It perhaps depicts a figure representing the bride dressed in white
sitting beside Cupid and accompanied by the goddess Venus.” extract from Wikipedia.
Galleria Borghese

25. The gallery has large and important collection of European
paintings, in particular early works of Caravaggio. It also
has some of the best piece of sculptures by Bernini.
Galleria Borghese

26. Galleria Borghese
The Emperor Room. Galleria Borghese. Rome.

27. Fountains
Fontana del Pantheon
The Fontana del Pantheon first completed in 1575 and modified in 1711.

28. Fontana del Pantheon

29. Piazza di Spagna
At base of the Spanish Steps is the Fontana della Barcaccia (Fountain of the Old Boat) built in 1629..

30. Piazza di Spagna
The Spanish Steps was build in 1723-26 financed by the French ambassador.

31. Trevi Fountain
The Trevi fountain is most famous fountains in the world. The Baroque fountain was built in 1762.

32. Trevi Fountain
The magnificent fountain is filled with beautiful sculpture of mythological figures.
Trevi Fountain

33. Trevi Fountain
Despite of its grandeur, the magnificent fountain is located in a crowded little square.

34. Trevi Fountain

35. Trevi Fountain
Packed with tourist on a warm summer night. The fountain is an iconic symbol of Rome.

36. Piazza Navona
The piazza was designed by Bernini, unveiled in 1651. It was a racing circus in Ancient Rome.

37. Piazza Navona
Fontana del Moro.

38. Fontana dei Quattro Flumi
Fountain of For Rivers (Bernini 1657).

39. Piazza Navona
At the centre of the square is the Fiumi fountain, designed by Berini (1651). The four figures at each corner
represented the four great rivers of the world (Ganges, Danube, Nile and River Plate). This is one is Nile, as its

40. Fontana del Nettuno 1574

41. Piazza Navona
An animated Neptune fighting a giant octopus. Fontana del Nettuno. (1574).

42. Piazza Navona

43. Fontana del Tritone

44. Fontana del Mose

45. His first public commission was big. Caravaggio had never painted such large canvases before. It was at a time when
the Catholic church was facing the challenge from the protestant and responded with a display of their the Catholic
wealth, to make Rome the unrivalled capital of Christianity.
Baroque Churches
San Luigi del Francesi

46. The Calling of St Matthew
Caravaggio had considerable
problems to fulfil the
commission, mainly due to his
fiercely realistic approach to
religious subjects. He had to
modify and to repaint the
paintings, several times. Yet
like this extraordinary realistic
depiction of the aging old man
(the identity St Mathew in the
painting is ambiguous) with
his spectacles, without any
glamour or grandiose.

47. Santa Maria Maggiore completed in 1743.
Santa Maria Maggiore

48. Santa Maria Maggiore

49. Santa Maria Maggiore

50. Santa Maria Maggiore
The interior of the bascilica.

51. Gesu
The Jesuits church of Il Gesu completed in 1568

52. Gesu
The ceiling above the nave by Il Baciccia, is an astonishing fresco of the Triumph of the Name of Jesus. On the
ceiling and around are stucco angels that strengthen the illusion.

53. The main ceiling painting is integrated with stucco figures - Giovanni Battista Gaulli . Il Gesu.

54. The damned falling out of the heaven. Some are turning into animals. - Giovanni Battista Gaulli . Il Gesu.

55. Gesu
The interior of the dome was painted by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (also known as Bacicco). Il Gesu.

56. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
Building began in 1626. It
was canonised as Ignatius
of Loyola, in honour of
founder of the Jesuit order.

57. Sant Ignazio di Loyola

58. Sant Ignazio di Loyola

59. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709),
was a Jesuit brother and skilful
in illusionist paintings.
As the visitors looked up to the
ceiling, they would see the
heaven, where St Ignatius of
Loyola is being received the
Light of God as he proceeds
from Christ tand witness by the
people from the four corners of
the world.

60. Sant Ignazio di Loyola
This is the painted Illusionistic dome (aft 1685), at the crossing of the Sant Ignazio di Loyola by Pozzo. .

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Music – Three Coins in the Fountain sung by Frank Sinatra

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