Top 10 Art and Antiques Shops
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1. Dott. Cesare Lampronti
Although it resembles an art museum, you can buy the work on show here: still lifes, religious paintings, mythological compositions, scenes of Roman life and Neo-Classical statues, variously dating from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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2. Benucci
Heavy duty art and antiques of the type more usually found in museums – 15th-century Roman and Florentine Virgin and Childs, works by artists such as Luca Giordano or Fra’ Bartolomeo – plus beautiful furnishings inlaid in mother-of-pearl and hardwoods.
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3. Galleria Veneziani
A large gallery selling a wide range of high-quality antiques, from furnishings and old oil paintings to statuary, vases and various objets d’art . Definitely worth a browse.
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4. Maurizio Grossi
Maurizio Grossi is a specialist in marble. This is just the place to buy a reproduction Roman bust or an astoundingly life-like sculpted fruit.
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5. Alberto di Castro
Etching, lithographs and other prints mostly from the 1660s to the 1920s are on sale in this lovely shop.
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6. Galleria dei Leoni
Regularly changing exhibitions of contemporary paintings, watercolours and prints are held here.
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7. Galleria Antiquaria
A small selection of artworks, mostly sculpture, paintings and objets d’art.
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8. Nomades
This eclectic, funky gallery housed in a former convent sells wood, stone and ceramic objets d’art from around the globe.
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9. E&R Danon
Mostly 18th- to early 20th-century Oriental carpets and prayer rugs, from Persia and India, Tibet and China.
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10. La Bottega del Marmoraro
MarmoraroHomespun Italian homilies carved into scraps of marble are hung pell-mell around a characteristic old workshop.
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