The Villa Caffarelli is part of the Capitoline Museums in the Italian capital.
The exhibit provides a unique insight into the most significant artworks of a collection that reached its utmost splendour from the beginning of the 16th century until the start of the 17th.
The show is called The Farnese in 16th-century Rome. Origins and fortune of a Collection and has been curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce and Chiara Rabbi Bernard.
It is one of the most significant projects organised by the Cultural Superintendency of Rome as part of Jubilee Year celebrations.
Masterworks on display include the Portrait of Pope Paul III with Camauro by Titian, a series of preparatory drawings for Annibale Carracci’s frescoes that decorated the Gallery of Palazzo Farnese, as well as the Book of Hours created by El Greco for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, on loan from the Morgan Library in New York.
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