Art in Rome

Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces in the Eternal City

Few cities in the world can rival Rome as a destination for art lovers. Over centuries, popes, cardinals and noble families turned the Eternal City into an open-air museum — commissioning the greatest painters and sculptors of their age and filling churches, palaces and galleries with masterworks that remain here to this day. Rome reached its artistic peak in the Baroque age: Caravaggio revolutionised painting in its churches, Bernini transformed sculpture in its galleries, Michelangelo and Raphael left their greatest frescoes on the walls of the Vatican. Yet the city’s artistic heritage stretches far beyond any single era — from ancient Roman reliefs to Renaissance altarpieces, every gallery and church tells a different chapter of the same story. A visit to Rome is not just a museum tour — it is a journey through two thousand years of Western art.