In October The Hunt Museum is introducing a tour to Rome.
The cost of this ‘Study Tour’ will be €694.00. Supplements apply for single rooms.
The handling agent for travel is GTI to whom all enquiries and fees should be paid and directed.
Prompt booking is advisable as fares may change nearer to the date of travel. The contact details for GTI are below:
Park House
Donabate
Co Dublin
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 843 4737
Fax: +353 1 843 4736
Web: www.gti-ireland.com
Download Booking Form here.
More information here.
The following day-by-day itinerary is subject to change and refinement nearer the
date of departure. The group is advised that entrance times and venues are subject
to change. Ongoing restoration works and intervention ensure that buildings
and given spaces, such as chapels, can be closed to the public at very short
notice. Also individual works of art may be subject to restoration or absent
through being on exhibition elsewhere. All churches will close at lunchtime and
it is advisable that an early start each morning will ensure maximum visiting times.
Day I: 16th October: Setting the Scene
The Piazza del Popolo (Sta Maria dei Miracoli / Sta Maria di Montesanto)
Sta Maria del Popolo: The Cerasi Chapel (1600);the Cybo Chapel (1682-7).
San Carlo al Corso
Pza di Spagna / Fontana di Barcaccia (Bernini and de Sanctis)
Palazzo di Propaganda Fide (Borrominin).
Piazza Barberini: Fontana del Tritone (Bernini)
Palazzo Barberini: Galleria Nazionale and Pietro da Cortona: The Triumph of Divine Providence (1632/3-1639).
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638 / 1667) (Borromini)
Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale (1658-78) (Bernini)
Palazzo del Quirinale; Piazza del Quirinale
Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria (Bernini).
Day II: Wednesday 17th October: The Baroque Core:
Sant’ Agostino (Caravaggio, The Madonna of Loreto). A
San Luigi dei Francesi, completed in 1589 by Domenico Fontana (Caravaggio, The Contarelli Chapel 1599-1600; compare / contrast with Domenechino’s fresco
1616-17 nearby ).
San Andrea dellaValle: Domenechino versus Lanfranco
Palazzo Spada: Galleria Spada and the prospettiva by Borromini.
Chiesa Nuova: Pietro da Cortona interior decoration.
Sta Maria della Pace, Pietro da Cortona.: Urban space as Theatre.
The Piazza Navona, The Church of San Agnese in Agone and the Four Rivers Fountain (Bernini)
Ponte Sant’ Angelo, statues by Bernini.
Borgo San Angelo
St Peter’s Basilica and Piazza
Baldacchino (1633)
Tomb of Urban VIII , Tomb of Alexander VII.
Day III: Thursday 18th October: The High Baroque
The Gesù, Adoration of the Name of Jesus (1672-82)
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj (Art Collection)
San Ignazio (Andrea Pozzo, Triumph of Saint Ignatius, 1680).
Palazzo di Montecitorio
Day IV: Friday 19th October: The Baroque Villa
The Villa Borghese
Walk through the gardens of the Villa Borghese to the PIncio and
by the Villa Medici.