Pietro da Cortona: the Rape of the Sabine Women

The Rape of the Sabine Women
1627-29
Oil on canvas, 280,5 x 426 cm
Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome

Pietro da Cortona again!!! The subject of my Master thesis when I was still in Auckland.
The Rape of the Sabine Women is a subject well known and practiced by many artists, included Pietro da Cortona, who received the commission by the Sacchetti family. This painting, today in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, was executed by the artist before the Triumph of Divine Providence for the Barberini Family in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

If you have occasion to visit Rome, don't forget to stop and admire this artwork in the Pinacoteca Capitolina at the top of the Campidoglio!

A presto!!

Rome: ruins, forum, Italian language

Forum by Simona

Forum by Simona

What a beautiful thing...going to Rome and see the Forum, walking along the old Roman ruins with some friends or by your own. Why not enjoy this especially when the season is so warm?

So if you are planning your holiday in September or October learn some intensive Italian in the next few weeks in Brisbane.

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Simona
0414 262 782

A castle in Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo

Castel'Angelo has an amazing story behind it. It was originally built as the Mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian. The long and varied history of the building, with its thousands of metamorphosis seems to have unsettled the complicated maze of underground rooms, balconies, stairs and courtyards that constitute the current structure of the castle.

The original structure and subsequent changes within the building overlap and merge, creating a body faceted and complex, laden with symbolic and historical layers.  

this photo was taken when I was on holiday

on the bridge you can see the two angels commissioned to Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Not far from the Vatican, this amazing building should be one of the stop during your Italian journey!!!!

Vacanze romane

Do you remember the movie "Vacanze Romane" with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn? 


During their journey on the Vespa scooter they have enjoyed some of the most beautiful sites of Rome, so if you are going to spend only a short holiday in Rome don't forget:

Bocca della Verità, Circus Maximus, Navona Square, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Coliseum....and many many more

Let me tell you ...a lifetime is not enough to discover Rome!