A historic Rome villa with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio will open its doors exclusively to visitors of the blockbuster show dedicated to the Baroque genius. The Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, better known as Villa Aurora, is home to the 25th work in Caravaggio 2025 - the Rome exhibition that everyone is talking about.
From Saturday 29 March until Sunday 6 July, visitors to the Caravaggio exhibition at Palazzo Barberini will also have the unique opportunity to admire the Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto mural in Villa Aurora. The allegorical scene, commissioned in the late 16th century by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte for his alchemy laboratory, was subsequently covered over and was only rediscovered in 1968.
