Borghese gallery 2024 / Ultimate guide to Europe’s best museum / Rome

Our guide to visiting the Borghese Gallery in Rome Italy. The magnificent museum is one of our favorite museums in Europe. It’s one of the world’s most perfect small museums.
In the 17th century, Cardinal Scipione Borghese meticulously assembled the densely-packed collection of wonders. The collection is rich in ancient Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art.
There are major works by the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque - Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Rubens, and Canova.
What To See at the Borghese Gallery
1. Raphael, Young Woman With a Unicorn
2. Raphael, Deposition
3. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite
4. Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath
5. Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, 1606
6. Caravaggio, Madonna and Child with St. Anne
7. Berini, Apollo and Daphne
8. Bernini, Rape of Persephone
9. Bernini, David
10. Bernini, Self Portraits, 1623, 1630-35
11. Bernini, The Goat Amaltea
12. Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus
13. Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
14. Antonio Corregio, Danae
15. Jacopo Bassano, Last Supper