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Painting & Drawing Classes in Rome
Drawing, watercolour, painting and life drawing around Rome, from drop-in figure sessions to multi-week courses.
27 painting classes in Rome
Book any daySketching Class in Villa Borghese
Sketching in Villa Borghese with Guido · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese
Book any day
€38 / person
DAILY · 9:30 AMPainting Class Near Piazza Navona
Art Gallery Roma · Centro Storico
Recurring session
€95 / person
SUN, OCT 25Sketchbook Making and Sketching Walk
Inky Larks · Centro Storico · 2.5 h
One-time class
From €32 / person
MON, OCT 26Sketchbook Making and Sketching Walk
Inky Larks · Centro Storico · 2.5 h
One-time class
From €32 / person
MON, WED & FRI · 10 AMFresco Painting Workshop with an Art Restorer
Mirò Restauro · Trastevere & Monteverde
Recurring session
From €95 / person
SATURDAYS · 10 AMSketching Tour with Watercolour Sketchbook
Sketching Rome Tours · Centro Storico
Recurring session
From €65 / person
FRI, NOV 6Sketchbook Making and Sketching Walk
Inky Larks · Centro Storico · 2.5 h
One-time class
From €32 / person
SAT, NOV 7Sketchbook Making and Sketching Walk
Inky Larks · Centro Storico · 2.5 h
One-time class
From €32 / person
The Secret Story of Pigeons: Reading and Art Workshop
Palazzo delle Esposizioni · Monti, Esquilino & Termini
One-time class
€9.50 · €2.50 online booking fee
SUN, NOV 8Sketchbook Making and Sketching Walk
Inky Larks · Centro Storico · 2.5 h
One-time class
From €32 / person
SAT, NOV 14Paint the Modern Masterpieces of the National Gallery
Caffè delle Arti · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese · 4 h
One-time class
€60 / person
SAT, DEC 12Paint the Modern Masterpieces of the National Gallery
Caffè delle Arti · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese · 4 h
One-time class
€60 / person
THRU SAT, NOV 14Living! Julian Beck, Painter
Ripense – Accademia Nazionale di San Luca · Trastevere & Monteverde
Multi-week course
Free
THRU SUN, NOV 15Marina Bindella: Cosmographies
Museo Carlo Bilotti – Aranciera di Villa Borghese · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese
Multi-week course
€7.50 / €6 reduced
THRU SUN, NOV 15Miriam Cahn: What Looks at Me
MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese
Multi-week course
€6 museum ticket
THRU SUN, NOV 22Fires on the Tiber: Rome Through the Eyes of Kanutas Ruseckas
Castel Sant'Angelo · Vatican & Prati
Multi-week course
€18 / €2 reduced (castle ticket)
THRU SUN, DEC 6Fulco Pratesi: Pioneer Watercolours
Museo di Roma in Trastevere · Trastevere & Monteverde
Multi-week course
€9.50 / €5 reduced
THRU TUE, DEC 8Titian: Dialogues Between the Sacred and the Profane
Galleria Borghese · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese
Multi-week course
€16 + €2 booking fee (museum ticket)
THRU SUN, DEC 13Diego Rivera and the Making of Modern Art in Mexico
Capitoline Museums · Centro Storico
Multi-week course
€15 / €13 reduced
THRU MON, JAN 4The Unfinished: Poetics and Technique
Capitoline Museums · Centro Storico
Multi-week course
Included in museum admission
THRU SUN, JAN 10Italian Baroque in Dresden
Museo Napoleonico · Centro Storico
Multi-week course
€7.50 / €6 reduced
FRI, OCT 30Correnti Sotterranee: Paintings by Marina Baciocchi
Museo delle Mura · Appian Way, EUR & South
Multi-week course
Free
THRU SUN, FEB 7GAM 100: A Century of Rome's Municipal Gallery
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale · Centro Storico
Multi-week course
€14.50 / €10 reduced
THRU SUN, FEB 7Pontormo
Scuderie del Quirinale · Monti, Esquilino & Termini
Multi-week course
€18 / €16 reduced · €12 under 30 · €5 ages 6–17 (+ €2.50 booking fee)
THRU SUN, FEB 14Kandinsky
Palazzo Bonaparte · Centro Storico
Multi-week course
€18 / reduced from €7
FRI, NOV 27Carlo Maria Mariani at Villa Farnesina: The Essence of Painting
Villa Farnesina · Trastevere & Monteverde
Multi-week course
€12 / €10 reduced (villa admission)
THRU SUN, MAR 21De Chirico and Metaphysics
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAMC) · Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese
Multi-week course
€17 / €2 reduced (museum ticket)
Painting & Drawing studios in Rome, side by side
The 21 studios behind the classes above, worked out from what each one has on our calendar right now: how many sessions, the lowest printed price, what kind of class it runs and when the next one is.
| Studio | Area | Classes | From | Formats | Next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inky Larks | Centro Storico | 5 | €32 | One-time class | SUN, OCT 25 |
| Capitoline Museums | Centro Storico | 2 | €15 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, DEC 13 |
| Caffè delle Arti | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 2 | €60 | One-time class | SAT, NOV 14 |
| MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 1 | €6 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, NOV 15 |
| Museo Carlo Bilotti – Aranciera di Villa Borghese | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 1 | €8 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, NOV 15 |
| Museo Napoleonico | Centro Storico | 1 | €8 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, JAN 10 |
| Palazzo delle Esposizioni | Monti, Esquilino & Termini | 1 | €10 | One-time class | SUN, NOV 8 |
| Museo di Roma in Trastevere | Trastevere & Monteverde | 1 | €10 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, DEC 6 |
| Villa Farnesina | Trastevere & Monteverde | 1 | €12 | Multi-week course | FRI, NOV 27 |
| Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale | Centro Storico | 1 | €15 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, FEB 7 |
| Galleria Borghese | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 1 | €16 | Multi-week course | THRU TUE, DEC 8 |
| National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAMC) | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 1 | €17 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, MAR 21 |
| Castel Sant'Angelo | Vatican & Prati | 1 | €18 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, NOV 22 |
| Scuderie del Quirinale | Monti, Esquilino & Termini | 1 | €18 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, FEB 7 |
| Palazzo Bonaparte | Centro Storico | 1 | €18 | Multi-week course | THRU SUN, FEB 14 |
| Sketching in Villa Borghese with Guido | Flaminio, Parioli & Villa Borghese | 1 | €38 | Book any day | Any day |
| Sketching Rome ToursBeginner sessions | Centro Storico | 1 | €65 | Recurring session | SATURDAYS · 10 AM |
| Art Gallery RomaBeginner sessions | Centro Storico | 1 | €95 | Recurring session | DAILY · 9:30 AM |
| Mirò Restauro | Trastevere & Monteverde | 1 | €95 | Recurring session | MON, WED & FRI · 10 AM |
| Ripense – Accademia Nazionale di San Luca | Trastevere & Monteverde | 1 | Not printed | Multi-week course | THRU SAT, NOV 14 |
| Museo delle Mura | Appian Way, EUR & South | 1 | Not printed | Multi-week course | FRI, OCT 30 |
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How this page is put together
Every listing here was read off the studio's own page by a person: the date, the price as printed, and whether a session is a one-off, a course or something you book for any day. Where a studio keeps its dates behind a booking system we say so rather than inventing one, and where it publishes no price we say that too.
Recurring classes show their next real occurrence rather than the date they were first entered, worked out in Rome (Central European) time so a 6:30pm class stays 6:30pm across the clock changes. The side-by-side table and the answers above are calculated from the same listings, so they change as the calendar does.
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