Capitoline Museums

The Capitoline Museums are a museum of the city of Rome and today consist of multiple collections of antiquities and art galleries. The most important are located on Capitol Hill, overlooking the Roman Forum in the Conservator 's Palace and the Palazzo Nuovo.

History

The Capitoline Museums date back to 1471, when the city of Rome was a collection of sculptures of Greek and Roman gods of antiquity by Pope Sixtus IV. In the following years, the collection has been extended mainly to Vatican stocks. So Pius V wanted to clean the Vatican palaces of pagan statues and transferred them to the curator palace.

With the completion of the Palazzo Nuovo in 1654 a part of the collection could be brought there and be better presented. After acquiring the collection of Cardinal Albani, the exhibition was first opened to the public in 1734. With the expansion of Rome, the capital of Italy from 1870 further discoveries of antiquities was made, which were swapped in a new Antiquarium on the Celio. 1925, the Palazzo Caffarelli was purchased, in 1952 included the northern cultivation of the Conservator 's Palace, the Braccio Nuovo in the museums and in 1957 established the Galleria Lapidaria. 1997 was outsourced due to construction part of the collection in the Centrale Monte Martini, a former power station on the Via Ostiense. Due to the great success it was converted into a permanent outpost in 2005.

By 2005, the Capitoline Museums were completely rebuilt by the architect Carlo Aymonino and expanded. In this case, the Palazzo Clementino was acquired and included.

Museums

The museums are divided into several parts today on Capitol Hill, which can be reached through the common entrance in the palace curator.

  • The Conservator 's Palace ( Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori ), built up in 1568 by Michelangelo, was fundamentally redesigned to 2005 and extended. There are here mainly archaeological finds and the Collezione Castellani. In a glass atrium area is now home to the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, a copy of which is on the Capitol Square. Within the museum also foundations of the Capitoline temple can be seen.
  • The so-called Conservatorio dei Appartamento includes the oldest part of the palace curator with the collection of 1471, which is shown in the frescoed halls, including the Boy with thorn and the Capitoline she-wolf with the two boys, Romulus and Remus.
  • In 1939 and 1941, resulting wing the Pinakothek located since 1957 with works by, among others, by Caravaggio, Titian and Rubens.
  • The Palazzo Caffarelli was acquired in 1925 and Museo Mussolini as part of the exhibition. In 2000, the adjacent Palazzo Clementino was included. The Palazzo Caffarelli - Clementino includes, among other things, the Collezione Santarelli and coin collection.
  • The Palazzo Nuovo is located opposite the palace curator at the Capitol Square. It contains among other things, the sculptures of the Collezione Albani. In the courtyard stands the statue of Marforio.
  • In the 1930s, the Palazzo Nuovo was connected to the curator palace through an underground passage. 1957 here the Galleria Lapidaria was set up with fragments of ancient marble inscriptions, but closed again due to the ingress of water soon. Since 2005, this department is to visit again.
  • Since 2005, the tabularium and the Temple of Veiovis is reached via a path from the Galleria Lapidaria.
  • Since 1997 on the Via Ostiense, the field office in the Central Monte Martini with, among others, the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Group Sosianus.
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