Rome is celebrating Raphael in its first-ever major exhibition on the Renaissance great.
The show at the Galleria Borghese has been insured for more than one billion euros, a record for an Italian exhibit.
Five Raphaels once housed at the Borghese gallery have returned there, joining one of Raphael's finest mid-career paintings, the Deposition. They include an exceptional loan from the Louvre, La Belle Jardiniere, which required 72 hours of acclimatisation after its arrival in Rome. In all, including other paintings and sketches, the exhibition boasts some 60 works.
The show runs until September.
