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Fuochi sul Tevere: Roma attraverso gli occhi di Kanutas Ruseckas
The Castellan's apartment hosts a selection of paintings by 19th-century Lithuanian Romantic painter Kanutas Ruseckas, part of the Italy-Lithuania 2026 cultural year, exploring Rome's pull on European artists.
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Fire fountains burst over Castel Sant'Angelo in a small oil study Kanutas Ruseckas painted around 1828 to 1830 from the Tiber embankment, the castle pulled up close. It shows the Girandola, the fireworks Rome set off every 29 June for Saints Peter and Paul. Stand in front of it and you are looking at the building you are standing in, lit up from outside.
Ruseckas, a Lithuanian Romantic painter, spent nearly a decade in Rome, living a short walk from the castle. A handful of his works from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, including views of the Colosseum, hang in the Castellan's apartment along the castle's Girandola route. They are back in Rome for the first time in nearly two centuries.
One curator calls it a "tiny exhibition", so treat it as a stop on your way up the castle. It is also the only Girandola in Rome you can catch in November. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 to 19:30, until 22 November.
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Paintings by the 19th-century Lithuanian Romantic Kanutas Ruseckas in Castel Sant'Angelo's Castellan's apartment, on the pull Rome had on European artists. Part of the Italy-Lithuania cultural year.
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Castel Sant'Angelo with Fireworks (1828 to 1830)
Look for the small oil-on-paper study where fountains of fire pour over the castle, painted from the Tiber bank so close the curators say you can almost hear the bangs.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You'd cross Rome for this alone: a curator calls it a tiny exhibition.
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- Fuochi sul Tevere: Roma attraverso gli occhi di Kanutas RuseckasCourtesy of Castel Sant'Angelo - Museo Nazionale
- FOOD. Il gusto nell'arteCourtesy of Chiostro del Bramante
- L'Ara si rivelaCourtesy of Museo dell'Ara Pacis
- Il potere del ritratto. Egitto e Roma. I volti del FayumCourtesy of Museo dell'Ara Pacis
- Castel Sant'Angelo - Museo NazionaleJean-Pol GRANDMONT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Chiostro del BramanteSailko, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo dell'Ara PacisCouncil, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi)Kaga tau / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0