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Masaccio
Masaccio gave painted figures physical weight and placed sacred events in spaces that appear measurable and inhabited.
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Masaniello
Masaniello’s brief leadership of the 1647 Naples revolt became a lasting image of popular resistance to taxation.
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Maurizio Bufalini
Bufalini challenged speculative medical systems and made close observation central to his teaching of pathology.
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Museo Carlo Bilotti
Modern art in the park’s former orangery, with a substantial group of works by Giorgio de Chirico and portraits connected to the Bilotti family.
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Museo Pietro Canonica
A sculptor’s former home and studio inside the Fortezzuola, where models and finished works explain how public monuments were made.
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Napoleon
Napoleon’s rule changed Rome’s administration and art collections, even though his empire’s plans for the city outlasted his control of it.
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Northern edge of the park
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
A national collection of nineteenth-century, modern, and contemporary art in a monumental building at Valle Giulia.
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Nazario Sauro
An Istrian mariner who volunteered for the Italian navy, Sauro was captured after the submarine Pullino grounded in 1916.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli examined power through both princely rule and republican government, drawing on years of Florentine public service.
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Niccolò Tartaglia
Tartaglia’s work on cubic equations became entangled in disputes over mathematical discovery and the right to publish it.
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Nicola Cavalieri San Bertolo
Cavalieri San Bertolo taught structural and hydraulic engineering and worked on Rome’s roads and water distribution.
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Paolo Mascagni
Mascagni mapped the lymphatic system and helped make anatomical illustration a precise instrument of study.
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Paolo Mercuri
Mercuri translated paintings into engraved lines and directed Rome’s Calcografia, where prints were made, preserved, and taught.
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Paolo Sarpi
Sarpi defended Venice against papal jurisdiction and wrote a history of the Council of Trent that challenged the papacy’s account of reform.
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Paolo Veronese
Veronese staged painted banquets on an architectural scale, bringing sacred stories into crowded worlds of wealth and display.
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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Toscanelli’s astronomical observations and geographical arguments joined practical measurement to the uncertain world maps of the Renaissance.
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Parco dei Daini
The former deer enclosure beside the Borghese Gallery preserves the name of an earlier use of the estate.
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Pellegrino Rossi
Rossi’s career crossed Switzerland, France, and Rome before his assassination during the constitutional crisis of 1848.
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