LOCATION: Centro storico

Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio: code name "The Damned". Year 1600. Characteristics: genius of light, impulsive, unregulated, transgressive, revolutionary, dreamer and ... damned.
Raffaello Sanzio or Santi: code name "The Divine". Year 1500. Characteristics: genius of color, elegant, confident, courtier, entrepreneur, generous, enlightened and divine.
The city of Rome is our theater, where we will visit the Basilica of S. Maria del Popolo, Via di Ripetta, Vicolo del Divino Amore, the Basilica of Sant'Agostino, the Church of San Luigi Dei Francesi, the Church of S. Maria della Pace.
In discovering these unique places, which welcomed the works of the two great geniuses, we will be transported back to their moments of glory, to the gossip and the conspiracies, and we will reconstruct their lives from their arrivals in Rome until their premature deaths. Both men were unaware that lives they were painting would become their greatest works of art.

LOCATION: Roma

Michelangelo Buonarroti: genius, gruff, workaholic, self-centered, generous, spiritual and a visionary.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: genius of portraiture, impulsive, workaholic, lucky, revolutionary, courteous, diplomat, visionary.
A real monograph by Michelangelo and Bernini inside St. Peter's Basilica that highlights the most important moments of their careers as well as their failures. A realistic and historical—but above all, human—portrait of the two geniuses who changed the face of the project for St. Peter's Factory.

LOCATION: Roma

Michelangelo Buonarroti: genius, gruff, workaholic, self-centered, generous,spiritual and a visionary.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: genius of portraiture, impulsive, workaholic, lucky, revolutionary, courteous, diplomat, visionary.
Our theatrical scenes will be the tomb of Julius II, the church of S Andrea al Quirinale, the church of S. Maria della Vittoria and the Basilica of SS. Apostoli, to finish at the Piazza del Campidoglio. Along the way many other beauties will accompany us on our tour dedicated to the two artists.

LOCATION: Centro storico

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini: code name Il Solare (The Bright One) or Son of the Pope. Characteristics: genius of portraiture, impulsive, workaholic, lucky, revolutionary, courteous, diplomatic, visionary, and a bit of a copycat. Francesco Castelli, aka Borromini: code name the Ombroso (The Shadowy One) or The Nerd. Characteristics: genius of architecture, chaste, introspective, fussy, perfectionist, visionary, argumentative, existentialist, dark, surly and suicidal.
Historical period: 1600 - 1680. We will explore their lives (and the gossip surrounding them) in an ironic and even comic way, starting from their beginnings to the apex of their careers, to their falls through the various Popes who exploited them to build squares, fountains, palaces and churches, not knowing that their rivalry was unconsciously transforming Rome into the capital that Charles de Brosses would call the Barocca-Baroque.

LOCATION: Campidoglio e dintorni

Michelangelo Buonarroti: code name "The Sublime”. Characteristics: Undisputed master of the Renaissance, gruff, workaholic, self-centered, generous, spiritual and a visionary. Historical period: 1500 - 1550. Michelangelo worked mainly for the Vatican: the Pietà, the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica. But what did he leave behind in the Eternal City? Through Michelangelo’s Roman works we will bring you inside the stories, the struggles, and the private life of a genius who never felt like he belonged in Rome, unaware that he was creating it in his very own image and likeness.

LOCATION: Roma

Bernini was a revolutionary and visionary genius who, through the patronage of four great Popes, managed to transform Rome into the capital of the Baroque. He made her mystical and marvelous. His theatrical and revolutionary projects were the beginning of a new way of imagining sculpture and art. In his long life of 82 years, Bernini brought life and soul to his marble sculptures and designed numerous fountains, squares and churches. Our journey back to Bernini’s time will take us to the church of S. Maria della Vittoria, the church of S. Andrea al Quirinale, the church of S. Andrea delle Fratte, the Trevi Fountain, the Quirinal palace, the “Minerva Chick”, and the Fountain of the Four Rivers.

LOCATION: Roma

Caravaggio was a Genius in constant conflict with himself, continuously searching for Nature revealed by the contrast between light and shadow, the relentless eye of visible truth. The church of S. Luigi dei Francesi, the basilica of S. Agostino and the basilica of S. Maria del Popolo will open virtual doors to his life in Rome until the year 1606, when he murdered Ranuccio Tommasoni and was forced to flee. We will live the epilogue of a genius who went out like a big and powerful flash in the pan. His life ended prematurely, but in his wake he left behind a new way of painting that communicated with the soul.

LOCATION: Roma

Raphael was active in Rome from 1508 to 1520. Through his works, his women and his friends, he became Immortal. To think that when he arrived in Rome at the age of 25, he was unknown; but by the time he died at 37, he was the most famous artist of the 1500s. All of Rome mourned him and transformed him into a demi God inside the Pantheon. He was a painter, manager, courtier, and friend of the most important and influential people; in short, a Genius nicknamed the Divine.

LOCATION: Roma

A journey to the Eternal City that hosted the “Honest Courtesans” from 1450 to 1600: women whose homes, stories and legends were immortalized in canvases and frescoes in churches and art galleries. Fiammetta Cassini, Vannoza Cattanei, Giulia Farnese, Imperia de Paris, Tulia D'Aragona, Beatrice De Bonis, Margherita Luti, Angela Greca, Fillide Melandroni, Maddalena Antognetti, Anna Bianchini will all tell us about their sensuality and their role as modern and emancipated women in the Papal Rome of the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. Without forgetting our Greco-Roman origins, the true cradle of the Ethereal Courtesans.

LOCATION: Roma

Francesco Castelli, aka Borromini: code name the Ombroso (The Shadowy
One) or The Nerd. Characteristics: genius of architecture, chaste, introspective, fussy, perfectionist, visionary, argumentative, existentialist, dark, surly and suicidal.
Historical period: 1600-1680. We will explore his life (and the gossip around it) in an ironic and even comic way to better understand the genius and the occult mystic of Borromini.
We will start at the Basilica of S. Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini, where the artist is buried with his Maestro Maderno, to play out the last days of his life. We will then cross Via Giulia to arrive at Palazzo Falconieri and the majestic Oratory of the Filippini, which saw the beginnings of a great friendship that would bind him to Cardinal Spada. Piazza Navona and Palazzo Pamphilij with the church of S. Agnese will be our epilogue, which ends in front of the bell tower of S. Ivo alla Sapienza, the only real gift he ever received from Bernini.