The Baroque

Join us for the grandeur and severity, the mysticism and sensuality of the Roman Baroque through the work of its most valuable players . . .

From Bernini’s ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ to Borromini’s San Carlo, the magnificent trompe l’oeil ceilings of the Gesu and Sant’Ignazio, with a break for one of Rome’s best coffees at the Piazza Sant’Eustachio, then on to the great fresco cycles in the Chiesa Nuova and Sant’Andrea della Valle – before lunch at Da Francesco’s for Rome’s best antipasto; in the afternoon we’ll cross the ‘Bridge of the Angels’ to the piazza and interior of Saint Peter’s Basilica, where we’ll experience a wizardry woven from the artistic ingredients of pagan antiquity . . .

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