Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi Rome
Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi Rome Ny
Hello, I am visiting Rome on July 19th-22nd 2018 and I would like to visit Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi and frescoes by Guercino and Caravaggio. I have contacted the Casino and they have told me that they are open to the public by reservation for groups minimum of 15 people and the cost is € 20.00 per person. (Input minimum € 300.00). The 16th century building has a cross shaped plan because in 1858 to each wing was added an avant-corps.
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The most celebrated of the three collections of ancient sculpture displayed in the museum is the Boncompagni Ludovisi marble collection, acquired between 1621 and 1623 by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi for his villa on the Quirinal Hill. Alongside the sculptures in the 17th-century collection, the piece that is probably the most famous is the Ludovisi Throne, recovered in 1887 during the urban development works undertaken in the area surrounding the villa. In 1901, the Italian Government acquired 104 sculptures from the Boncompagni Ludovisi family, and these were exhibited for a lengthy period in the Small Cloister of the Charterhouse in the Museum of the Baths of Diocletian. They were then transferred to the Palazzo Altemps, a setting where they can be shown to maximum advantage, integrated into the elegant rooms of the stately mansion.