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Galleria Borghese
The Borghese Gallery (Italian: Galleria Borghese) is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, in the eponymous park of the Villa Borghese in Rome. It houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621).
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