Silenus Room in the Borghese Gallery

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by Henk Bekker

Caravaggio Paintings in the Selinus Room of the Borghese Gallery

Caravaggio Paintings in the Selinus Room of the Borghese Gallery:

Lower row from left:

Young Man with a Basket of Fruit, ca. 1593
John the Baptist, ca. 1610
Saint Jerome Writing, ca. 1605

Top right: The Judgment of Solomon (possibly by Ribera Jusepe De’ called Spagnoletto)

At the center of the room is a large marble dancing satyr from antiquity (2nd century, restored by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1830).