The Aranciera of Villa Borghese
MUSEO CARLO BILOTTI
V.le Fiorello La Guardia. Tel. 06 82059127. Opening hours: Tue.-Sun. 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. Tickets: € 6, € 4 red.
Until December 31st
In the 18th century it was one of the most prestigious buildings in Villa Borghese, noted as the house of water plays, a theater for parties and a mundane meeting place. The building now hosts the collection of Italo-American artist Carlo Bilotti, works of art by De Chirico, Andy Warhol, Giacomo Manzù and Larry Rivers.

Bonnard-Matisse
COMPLESSO DEL VITTORIANO
V. S. Pietro in Carcere (Fori Imperiali). Tel. 06 6780664. Opening hours: Mon.-Thu. 9.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 9.30 a.m.-11.30 p.m., Sun. 9.30 a.m. - 8.30 p.m. Tickets: € 9, red. price € 7.
October 7th - February 4th
Through over 200 works of art, documents and correspondence, the exhibition is the testimony of the strong connection between two masters similar for their “love for painting” but different for the expressive forms of their canvases. Their paintings document the profound relationship of esteem, friendship, respect, which unites two great solitary painters of the 20th century.

China. The Birth of an Empire
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE
V. XXIV Maggio, 16. Tel. 06 39967500. Opening hours: Sun-Thu. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri. and Sat.10 a.m.-10.30 p.m. Tickets: € 10, red. price € 7,50.
Until January 28th
The largest number of evidence ever granted to an exhibition in the West by the Chinese authorities: over 300 pieces narrating over a millennium of Chinese history and art, from the Zhou dynasty (1045-221 arc.) to the first Empire (221 b.C.-23 a.C), during which the empire was molded and consolidated and continued with its refined culture and widespread administrative structure for over 21 centuries.

The 'Schola' of Caravaggio. Paintings from the Koelliker Collection
PALAZZO CHIGI IN ARICCIA
Piazza di Corte, 14 - Ariccia. Tel. 06 9330053. Opening hours: 10 a.m.- 7 p.m., Mon. closed. Tickets: € 7, red. price € 4.
October 5th - February 4th
The exhibition proposes a vast panorama of Roman Caravaggio painting through over ninety paintings from the largest private collections of ancient art in Italy and from one of the most important private collections of Italian art, that of merchant Luigi Koelliker of Milan.

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - The poet painter
CASA DI GOETHE
V. del Corso, 18. Tel. 06 32650412. Opening hours: every day 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Mon. closed. Tickets: € 4, red. price € 3.
Until November 19th
A grand exhibition as homage to J. H. W. Tischbein, the friend who hosted J. W. Goethe in Rome. His contemporaries nicknamed him the “painter with the palette” or the “poet painter”. In fact many of his works of art was conceived as real pendants of literary texts.

Andy Warhol. Repent and sin no more!
CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE
V. della Pace. Tel. 06 68809035. Opening hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-8.30 p.m.; Mon. closed. Tickets: € 9, red. price (closed Tue. except holidays) € 7.
Until January 7th
The exhibition holds approximately 80 works of art on canvas, photographs, and videos from the Warhol Museum archives, deepening a less known aspect of Warhol’s art: his connection to spirituality and religion. Redefining the human complexity the artist, who affronts the difficult relationship which links life and death through his work.

Sculptures in the Villa
VILLA D’ESTE
P.zza Trento, 1. Tivoli. Info and reservations: tel. 199766166. Opening hours: 8.30 a.m. till 1 hour before sunset, closed Mon.
Until November 5th
On the outside of the villa among fountains, splendid Italian gardens eight monumental sculptures will be exhibited. In the apartment of the ground floor of the Pirro Ligorio Palace , the “Profile a synthetic selection of approximately sixty works of art, testifying every single aspect of the artists research.

The Emiliana atelier
MUSEI CAPITOLINI (Palazzo Caffarelli)
P.zza del Campidoglio. Tel. 06 82059127. Opening hours: Tue.-Sun. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Mon. closed. Tickets: including entrance to the Capitolini museums and the exhibition, € 8, red. price € 6; only exhibition, € 4,50, € 2,50 red. price.
Until January 28th
The masters of art history and the Emiliano-Romagnola art school from the 15th till the 18th century. From the Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna collection 35 paintings by 32 artists, among which Cristoforo da Lendinara, Innocenzo da Imola, il Correggio, il Bagnacavallo, Girolamo da Carpi, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Ludovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Alessandro Tiarini, Giovanni Lanfranco, il Guercino, Elisabetta Sirani, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giacomo Zoboli.

Iliade
COLOSSEO
For information and reservations: 06 39967700. Opening hours: 8.30 a.m.-6.30 p.m. Tickets: € 11, red. price € 6,50.
Until February 18th
An exhibition dedicated to the most noted ancient poem, which intends to give Omero’s tale back all of its philological integrity.