Capitoline Museums
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The Capitoline Museums are a museum complex of the city of Rome and today consist of several collections of antiquities and art galleries. The most important are on the Capitol Hill , above the Roman Forum in the Conservators' Palace and the Palazzo Nuovo .
history
The Capitoline Museums date back to 1471 when the city of Rome received a collection of sculptures of ancient Greek and Roman gods from Pope Sixtus IV . In the following years the collection was expanded to include Vatican holdings. So Pius V wanted to clean the Vatican palaces of pagan statues and transferred them to the Conservator's Palace.
With the completion of the Palazzo Nuovo in 1654, part of the collection could be brought there and better presented. After the acquisition of the collection from Cardinal Albani , the exhibition was opened to the public for the first time in 1734. With the expansion of Rome to the capital of Italy from 1870, further finds of antiquities were made, which were relocated to a new antiquarium on the Celio . In 1925 the previously expropriated Palazzo Caffarelli , in 1952 the northern extension of the Conservator's Palace , the Braccio Nuovo , were incorporated into the museums and in 1957 the Galleria Lapidaria was established. In 1997 part of the collection was moved to the Centrale Montemartini , a former power station on Via Ostiense , due to construction work . Due to its great success, it was converted into a permanent branch in 2005.
By 2005, Carlo Aymonino's museum buildings were fundamentally rebuilt and expanded. The Palazzo Caffarelli was also acquired and included.
Museums
The museums are now divided into several parts on the Capitol Hill, which can be reached through the common entrance in the Conservator's Palace.
- The Conservator's Palace (Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori), designed by Michelangelo until 1568 and built by Giacomo della Porta , was fundamentally redesigned and expanded until 2005. There are mainly archaeological finds and the Collezione Castellani. The equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius , a copy of which is on Capitol Square, is located in a glazed inner courtyard . Foundations of the Capitoline Temple can also be seen inside the museum .
- The so-called Appartamento dei Conservatori includes the oldest part of the Conservator's Palace with the collection from 1471, which is shown in the frescoed halls, including the thorn extractor and the Capitoline Wolf with the two boys Romulus and Remus .
- In a wing that was built between 1939 and 1941, the Pinakothek has been located since 1957 with works by Caravaggio , Titian and Rubens, among others .
- The Palazzo Caffarelli , expropriated after the First World War , became part of the exhibition in 1925 as Museo Mussolini . In 2000 the neighboring Palazzo Clementino was included. The Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino includes the Collezione Santarelli and the coin collection.
- The Palazzo Nuovo is located opposite the Conservators' Palace on Capitol Square. It contains among other things the sculptures of the Collezione Albani. The statue of Marforio is in the courtyard .
- In the 1930s, the Palazzo Nuovo was connected to the Conservator's Palace by an underground passage. In 1957, the Galleria Lapidaria was set up here with fragments of ancient marble inscriptions, but it was soon closed again due to the ingress of water. This department can be visited again since 2005.
- Since 2005, the Tabularium and the Temple of Veiovis have been accessible via a corridor from the Galleria Lapidaria .
- Since 1997 there has been a branch in the Centrale Montemartini on Via Ostiense with, among other things, the gable group of the Temple of Apollo Sosianus .
literature
- Manfred Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Art Guide, Italy. Volume V. Rome and Latium . Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-008679-5 .
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Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 57" E