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The Palace with in Villa Borghese, also known as the Casino Borghese, houses the Museum and the Gallery Mainly causisting of Cardinal Scipione Borghese's private collection, the Museum contains items that are arrong the most important ones in the world.You can admire a lot of Renaissance and Neoclassic sculptures. Same of Bernini's masterpieces werecommissioned by the cardinal himself, such as the famous David, about which you may notice that the artist created his qwn self portrait, and "Apollo and Daphne". The numerous Renaissance works are often refemed to nearby ancient sculptures, from which the Neoclassicalmovement drew its inspiration.The famous Hermafrodite and several pot traits of ancient emperors by Della Porta are exposed here.There is also Canova's famous portrait of Paolina Borghese depicted as the "Venere Vincitrice" Great artist decorated all the rooms.
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