The borghese gallery, a building dating back to the beginning of the seventeenth century, symbol of the rise of the homonymous family in the roman environment.
The villa belonged to the borghese family, and was built together with the park that today bears the name of villa borghese.
Cardinal scipione borghese was an excellent patron: it was he who commissioned bernini the rape of proserpina and apollo and daphne.
Another famous sculptor housed in the borghese gallery is canova, with his statue in honor of pauline, sister of napoleon bonaparte.
Tiziano and raffaello sanzio and caravaggio are respectively housed in the museum. the borghese gallery is certainly one of the most beautiful and baroque museums in rome you can not miss it.