Annibale Carracci exhibit at Rome's Palazzo Barberini, November 16th, 2022

Rome’s central Palazzo Barberini held a press conference to present the “Annibale Carracci’s frescoes of the Herrera chapel” exhibit.

On hand during the presentation was the director of Palazzo Barberini, Flaminia Gennari Santori, and her Spanish colleague, Andrés Ubeda de los Cobos, the vice-director of Madrid’s world famous Prado museum.

The frescoes were by Italian artist Annibale Carracci (born in 1560 in Bologna, died in 1609 in Rome) for the Spanish banker Juan Enriquez de Herrera in the chapel of the Church of San Giacomo degli Spangly in Rome’s Piazza Navona, a place of worship very dear to the Spanish community of Rome.   

Sixteen frescoes are on hand at Palazzo Barberini.   The “chapel” at this exhibit has been meticulously rebuilt as the original one was destroyed in 1830 (the frescoes had been removed prior to the chapel’s destruction).

The exhibit runs until February 5th, 2023.

Italian showgirl Lorella Cuccarini presents the musical “Rapunzel” in Rome, November 21st, 2022.

Longtime showgirl-dancer-actress-author Lorella Cuccarini was on hand with the entire cast of the Italian version of “Rapunzel” which will be presented at Rome’s Teatro Brancaccio.

During the press conference 57 year-old Cuccarini spoke about her role as Gothel in the musical and that of her supporting actresses/actors.

A Christmas favorite, the show will run from December 2^nd, 2022 to January 8^th, 2023.