From March 29 to June 30, 2024, the National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Borghese Gallery are launching a new collaboration to allow the public to continue enjoying the heritage preserved on the first floor of the Borghese Gallery even during the ambitious renovation and conservation project made possible thanks to the funds of the PNRR. Fifty works will in fact be transferred to the South Wing of the noble floor of Palazzo Barberini.

This initiative is a unique and unmissable opportunity to bring together two collections that share a similar history, linked to two crucial figures of the political and cultural life of seventeenth-century Rome, Maffeo Barberini and Scipione Borghese, in an ideal historical, cultural, and not least, geographical proximity. 

Absolute masterpieces, such as Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina, the Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini, the Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John and angels by Sandro Botticelli, the Portrait of a Young Woman with Unicorn by Raphael, Susanna and the Elders by Peter Paul Rubens, the Sacred and Profane Love by Titian, the Preaching of St. John the Baptist by Paolo Veronese, just to name a few, will continue to be accessible to the general public. 

At Palazzo Barberini, the temporary dismantling of the rooms in the South Wing will be an opportunity for a thorough photographic campaign and preventive conservation of the works normally exhibited in these spaces: from the Neapolitan seventeenth century to the eighteenth-century collection, from Mattia Preti to the painters of the Grand Tour.

Throughout the exhibition period, there will be discounts on tickets. The Borghese Gallery ticket is reduced and costs 11 euros (excluding mandatory reservation fees, free admissions, and legal reductions). Those who have purchased this ticket are entitled to visit the National Galleries of Ancient Art at a very reduced cost (5 euros), while enjoying all the extraordinary heritage and ongoing initiatives.