Galleria Borghese
The sumptuous Galleria Borghese is home to one of Italy's finest collections of paintings, sculptures and antiquities, most of them collected by the hedonistic and extravagant Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633), a nephew of Pope Paul V. This collection, though depleted over the centuries, is still substantial and has been in public ownership since 1902. It is displayed in 20 rooms on two floors. The photograph was taken in Room V (the Room of the Hermaphrodite) and is of a 2nd century AD sculpture of a sleeping hermaphrodite. It is a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek original by Polycles; the head and bed on which (s)he rests was a 19th century addition.
Galleria Borghese
The sumptuous Galleria Borghese is home to one of Italy's finest collections of paintings, sculptures and antiquities, most of them collected by the hedonistic and extravagant Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633), a nephew of Pope Paul V. This collection, though depleted over the centuries, is still substantial and has been in public ownership since 1902. It is displayed in 20 rooms on two floors. The photograph was taken in Room V (the Room of the Hermaphrodite) and is of a 2nd century AD sculpture of a sleeping hermaphrodite. It is a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek original by Polycles; the head and bed on which (s)he rests was a 19th century addition.