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PCTO ACTIVITY: Guided Tours through the must-see sites in the Eternal City. Students IV E (Stefano Roy Bianes ,Harshalee Brosas, Mark Owen Siman)

Piazza Barberini in Barberini Square

Fontana Del Tritone • Fontana del Tritone (Triton ) is a seventeenth-century • Fontana delle Api (Fountain of the Bees) was sculpted by Gian fountain in , by the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Lorenzo Bernini and completed in April 1644. Bernini, commissioned by his patron Pope Urban VIII.

Maffeo Barberini, once made Pope (Pope Urban VIII), ordered the The National Gallery of Ancient Art features over 1,400 works of art of construction of the estate. The construction started in 1625 and was renowned artists from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. One finished in 1633 by Bernini, after Maderno’s death. In 1949, it became of the most noteworthy halls is the oval salone, covering the entire the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica height of the building The "Trionfo della Divina Provvidenza" is a painted by Pietro Berrettini between 1632 and 1639 on the vault of the hall of Palazzo Barberini, in Rome.

Giuditta e Oloferne was executed by and dated at the start of the 17th century. The subject depicts an episode from the Old Testament. This famous painting made approx. in 1520 by , it depicts a young woman with bare breasts.

Henry VIII was forty-nine when Holbein portrayed him in this painting (1540), made on the occasion of the king's fourth marriage. We hope you enjoyed our sample of guided tour.