After 2 days laid up in bed I managed to go to Villa Borghese today to see incredible sculptures and paintings.

Mr Borghese – Politician and Religious Leader – he looked to find good reasons to display nude men and women in sculptures and paintings that would placate the more pious Christians….

The ceilings are spectacular, challenging those in the Vatican Museums and St Peter’s Basilica.

Most of the sculptures are by Gian Lorenzo Bernini …..look at the exquisite and realistic body details….anatomically perfect? Yes! Erotic? I leave that up to you….

The Rape of Persephone…

Apollo and Dafne – he is consumed by her but she can’t stand him so she turns into a tree…and begins to envelop him in the process…

David getting ready to slay Goliath…

Lad with a thorn in his foot…

Napoleon’s Sister…

Most of the paintings are by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, that infamous gay guy who murdered at least one person.

Madonna with Child and St Anne. Madonna looks a bit in the worldly side, St Anne is well worn and as for Jesus…..very Caravaggio.

Bad boy….

David again, this time with Goliath’s severed head….

Another bad boy…

Titian…the lude girl and the good girl….which is which?