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Travel Bites 966: Borghese Gallery’s Baroque Masters

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In a cardinal’s sumptuous villa, masterpieces by Raphael, Canova, and especially Bernini reveal how Rome’s fabulously wealthy patrons transformed collecting and commissioning art into dazzling displays of prestige, power, and beauty.

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