Caravaggio and Baroque Rome – Rome Guided Tours on the footsteps of caravaggio and the triumph of roman baroque – private tour deluxe vehicle pick up and Drop off in your accommodation in Rome option
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Much of his work has been made and is located in Rome.
On our tour, we will walk the streets and squares that saw him star in one of the most fruitful periods of Italian art, the Baroque. We will pass next to two of his Roman houses, Palazzo Madama, the seat of the Senate, and Giustiniani Palace, which now houses offices of the Senate. We will enter Piazza Navona, the place of his arrest on charges of murder, where we even describe works of other famous artists of the seventeenth century as Bernini and Borromini.
But the most exciting Caravaggio, with the magnificence of his pictorial luminosity, is what will meet in his works preserved in some churches of Rome, such as St. Augustine, St. Louis of France, and Santa Maria del Popolo.
Admire masterpieces in these rich Christian temples, the overwhelming beauty of Contarelli Chapel with stories from the life of St. Matthew in St. Louis of France; the poetry of the Madonna of the Pilgrims in St. Augustine, and the drama of the Cerasi Chapel of the Crucifixion of St. Peter and the Conversion of St. Paul in Santa Maria del Popolo. These splendid churches also host other Roman Baroque masterworks along with remarkable pieces of previous eras.
The tour includes:
- Piazza del Popolo and the Church of S. Maria del Popolo: Crucifixion of St. Peter and the Conversion of St. Paul (with masterpieces by Carracci, Bernini, Pinturicchio)
- Via del Corso
- Piazza Colonna with an explanation of Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the government
- Piazza di Montecitorio with an explanation of the Montecitorio Palace House of Parliament
- Piazza of St. Ignatius with the Church of St. Ignatius
- Piazza Della Rotonda with an explanation of the Pantheon
- Church of St. Louis of France with an explanation of Contarelli Chapel (Calling of St. Matthew, St. Matthew, and the Angel, the Martyrdom of St. Matthew)
- Church of St. Augustine with an explanation of the Madonna of the Pilgrims
- Palazzo Madama, the seat of the Senate
- Piazza Navona with Bernini’s masterpieces (Fountain of the Rivers) and Borromini (Facade of St. Agnes in Agony)
MEETING TIME: Suggested at 09.00 a.m. or 15,30 p.m.
GROUP SIZE: That of your party
- Over 7 people’s rates are personalized.
- Limousine up to 3 passengers plus guided and driver
- For more than 3 passengers, a minivan will be used
- Privileged entrance. No waiting!
