|
|
The Capitoline Museums have center in two sets buildings the one in front of the other: the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo or of Museum. Both were built in Capitoline Hill in the urbanistic square planned by Michelangelo. The museum was open to public visits to want of Pope Clemente XII in 1734, thing that makes the most ancient public museum in the world. |
It preserves a lot of famous sculptural and pictorial works, but the most famous work that preserves, it is surely the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. In the Palazzo Nuovo, besides the statue of the emperor that goes up to the II century AD, it’s found the Discobolus, original Greek of whom just the trunk of the body remained, transformed by the French sculptor Monnot into a wounded warrior, the statue of the Galata Morente Roman work of the III century copies of original Greek, the Red Faun discovery in Tivoli in Villa Adriano, and a beautiful mosaic always found in the same villa and known as the “Mosaic of the Doves” |
The other building of the museums, the Palazzo dei Conservatori it can be visited from the square or from an underground gallery dug in the 30’s and currently prepared as Lapidary Gallery, that also gives access to the Tabularium and unites the two buildings. Here the pinacoteca of the museums is found, in whose catalog there is the famous painting of John the Baptist work of the Caravaggio. |
But the symbol of the city is also there, the bronze of the Capitoline Wolf, etruscan work of the V century BC. With a lot of probability the native statue didn't include the twins of the legend Romolo and Remo, it seems they were added in the Renaissance, and the colossal head of Constantine II goes up to the IV century AD. |
|
|
