If you are looking for Italian art in the BelPaese a good idea is taking a walk to religious builings not because cannot be found in the museums, more because Catholic church and religion has been the only constant during the centuries in the political, cultural, civil life of a country with a complex history. In Rome, constance had to join a certain willingness of affirming its powers following a not brief period of obscurantism of freedom of beliefs. Many monumental buildings symbol of ancient Urbe seem to have initiated an eternal dialogue with the monumentality of religious, mainly catholic, buildings. One of those notable examples is the Santa Maria del Popolo Basilica, the less imponent, just close to the metropolitan station. Once was the Mausoleo of the Domizi Enobarbi and, during the first century of the year Thousand, the pope Pasquale II decided to destroy the grave of Nero, whose memory was quite alive in Roman citizens and to build a catholic basilica. During the centuries the church was obviously enlarged, enriched of artworks, among the other two Caravaggio's and one Annibale Carracci's paintings in the transept, the Chigi Chapel frescoed by Raffaello and in the right aisles a limkeable example of that art easier to trace in the Central Italian province, the Chapel of the crèche frescoed by Pinturicchio and his 'bottega', admirable grotesques, probably built on a Brembo project. Admiring those masterpieces is always something good to enjoy with more contemplative rythms also in the beautiful Italian province, programming eventually an artistic tour towards regions and towns that seem to have inside the essence initself of Italianity.
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