The Capitoline Museum is the oldest public collection of art in the world, began in 1471, and in my opinion, it is absolutely the best museum in Rome. If you are interested in artifacts and sculptures from ancient Rome up to the 1700s or so, you'll love it, too. It is filled with ancient Roman history and Roman copies of ancient Greek sculptures. To help you estimate how long you'll need to spend in this this museum, I'll tell you my experience. I spent about two hours in the museum the first time I went, and completely enjoyed the highlights (perhaps 50 objects) without having any prior background knowledge about Rome beside what I think most people have. After that trip to Rome I learned quite a bit of Roman history, so during my second visit to Rome I spent about 6 hours in the museum. After more study, my third visit was a full day. The more you understand and can appreciate, the more time you can spend in the museum. But if you understand nothing, still go and enjoy a few hours of beautiful sculptures.
The Capitoline Museum is made of 3 the buildings that surround the Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitol Hill: The Palazzo dei Conservatori, the Palazzo Senatorio and the Palazzo Nuovo. You can get there from the Colosseo metro stop by walking down Via dei Fori Imperiali to the end of the Roman Forum, turning left at the street before you get to the huge white Victor Emmanuel Monument, and walking up the hill to the large piazza on the right. Or, if you're approaching from the other side of the Victor Emmanuel Monument, pass the stairway that leads to the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli and climb the stairs (actually, more of a ramp) to the piazza. The ticket booth, audio guide rental and entrance are all in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (1st photo below), the building furthest from the huge white Victor Emmanuel Monument. This building also houses the most famous works in the museum. The building across the piazza (closest to the Victor Emmanuel Monument) is the Palazzo Nuovo, which houses sculptures, and will probably be the last part of the museum you see. The buildings are joined by an underground passage which runs under the third building in the piazza, the Palazzo Senatorio, and houses a huge collection of inscriptions. None of the museum is above ground in that building, but in the underground passageway is a side-branch that leads past an ancient temple to the Tabularium, the public records building of Ancient Rome, where you'll get a great view of the Roman Forum. (For completists, the Central Montemartini Museum, miles away, is also part of the Capitoline Museum)
The Palazzo dei Conservatori, entrance to and main part of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
In my tour of the Capitoline Museum here, I'll be following the room numbering and therefore ordering as was in my 2014 guide map given to me when I bought my ticket. I see that various web sites number the rooms differently, so you might prefer to use the room names I state after the room number, which won't change.
Palazzo dei Conservatori - the first of three buildings in the Capitoline Museum
The Palazzo dei Conservatori is made of five sections:
Courtyard - a small outdoor square, famous for sculptures and inscriptions
The richly-decorated 16th century Conservators' Apartment consists of about 10 rooms that were used by magistrates for activities connected with their office, and for private and public council meetings. The rooms are famous for their frescoes, floors, ceilings, sculptures and inscriptions.
The Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum was so named after it had been expanded to its present size in 1876 and given its current name. In 2005 this area was extensively renovated and modernized in 2005. This area has an impressive collection of sculptures, and the remains of foundations of the ancient Temple of Jupiter.
The Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) houses many masterpiece paintings
The Palazzo Clementino - Caffarelli is a rather small section built in the late 16th century and retains much of its old look. It houses some sculptures, some remains from temples, and a collection of jewelry and coins.
When you enter the Capitoline Museum you'll find yourself in room 1, the courtyard with ancient artifacts displayed along the four walls. The wall you'll be drawn to is the one that displays the fragments of the Colossal Statue of Constantine discovered in 1486 in the western apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum. The statue displayed the Emperor Constantine seated on a throne, and was created between 313 and 324 AD.
Fragments of the Colossal Statue of Constantine, from the western apse of the Basilica of Maxentius, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marble fragments in the Capitolene Museum of the ruins of the giant Statue of Constantine from 313-324 AD that was in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marble fragments in the Capitolene Museum of the ruins of the giant Statue of Constantine from 313-324 AD that was in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marble fragments in the Capitolene Museum of the ruins of the giant Statue of Constantine from 313-324 AD that was in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marble fragments in the Capitolene Museum of the ruins of the giant Statue of Constantine from 313-324 AD that was in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marble fragments in the Capitolene Museum of the ruins of the giant Statue of Constantine from 313-324 AD that was in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
There is a lot more to see along these walls, though, such as some of the reliefs from the Temple of Hadrian found at the end of the 16th century and in 1883. These reliefs personified the various provinces subject to the Roman Empire at the time, and are called the Province Reliefs. Many are displayed here in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Achaea from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Moesia or Thrace from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Mauretania from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief of a Trophy from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Gaul or Germania from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief of a Trophy from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Hispania from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief of a Trophy from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Bithynia or Dacia from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A 'Province' Relief personifying the province of Libya or Numidia from the Temple of Hadrian, 145 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
These objects are also in the courtyard (room 1) of the Capitoline Museum:
Colossal Statue of Roma Seated, from 117-138 AD, a copy of the Greek original of Minerva from the 5th century BC, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of Roma Seated, from 117-138 AD, a copy of the Greek original of Minerva from the 5th century BC, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Funerary monument of Marcus Agrippa (27 BC-14 AD) from Campus Martius, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cippus (memorial) of Sabinus Xantippus, from the 2nd century AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of a Dacian Prisoner, from the 2nd century AD, probably from a Severan Triumphal Arch, now in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of a Dacian Prisoner, from the 2nd century AD, probably from a Severan Triumphal Arch, now in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Maenad, from an original of the 4th century BC, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Dacian Prisoner, from the Arch of Constantine, 98-117 AD, in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
When you leave the courtyard, you'll be forced onto the grand staircase to go up one floor. The first half of the staircase is room 2, the second half room 3. At the first landing on that staircase, look for these three reliefs from the triumphal arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius. Eleven reliefs still exist from that arch, the three here and another eight of them which were re-used on the Arch of Constantine and can still be seen on it.
The 'sacrifice' relief (1st photo below) shows Marcus Aurelius in his role as pontifex maximus or chief priest, one of the traditional roles of a Roman Emperor. Augustus is sculpted in this role in the Palazzo Massimo. Typically, sculptures of emperors in this role are wearing a toga with a hood covering their head, and are holding a patera, a dish used during sacrifice. Considering how important religion and tradition was to Roman people, it was important for the emperor to demonstrate his conviction to these ideals. The temple in the background of this relief might be the Jupiter Optimus Maximus Capitolinus located on top of the Capitoline Hill.
The 'conquest and clemency' relief (2nd photo below) shows Marcus Aurelius dressed in a cuirass, on horseback. The trees in the background suggest he is in reviewing the battlefield after a victory. Barbarians surrender at his feet and beg for mercy. Marcus Aurelius' pose in this relief is reminiscent of the emperor's equestrian statue in the Capitoline Museum.
The 'Triumph' relief (3rd photo below) shows Marcus Aurelius riding a four-horse chariot and being crowned by Nike, a representation of Victory. The chariot is decorated with reliefs showing the figures of Neptune and Minerva flanking the figure of Roma. A temple is shown in the background, and a triumphal arch is shown on the right, presumably the arch that the emperor's chariot has just passed through as his triumphal procession has just begun. Commodus was probably also in the chariot originally, as suggested by the large size of the chariot and the figure of Nike who was probably centered above the two characters and holding crowns for them both. After Commodus went crazy and became extremely unpopular and was assassinated, his memory was damned (damnatio memoriae) by the senate, causing him to be removed from all inscriptions, statues, friezes, etc, as if by doing this they could make him never exist.
Relief showing Marcus Aurelius, as Pontifex Maximus, Sacrificing in Front of the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter (which actually had 6 columns across the front), from the arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius, now on the first landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief showing Triumph of Marcus Aurelius, from the arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius, now on the first landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum. The emperor shows mercy to the defeated, striking a pose similar to that of his equestrian statue at the center of the Campidoglio. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief showing the Triumph of Marcus Aurelius, from the arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius, now on the first landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum. Commodus was probably chiseled out of this relief after his death in disgrace, as evidenced by the fact that the chariot is oversized for one person, and the figure of Victory holds two crowns. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The ceiling above the grand staircase, another relief on the landing of the Emperor Hadrian, and a portrait of Emperor Hadrian on the grand staircase are shown below:
Relief showing Hadrian's Entry Into Rome, probably after the Jewish Wars in 134 AD, now on the first landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum. The Emperor receives the orb, symbol of authority, from the warrior goddess Rome. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief showing Hadrian's Entry Into Rome, probably after the Jewish Wars in 134 AD, now on the first landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum. The Emperor receives the orb, symbol of authority, from the warrior goddess Rome. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hadrian, on the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
When you reach the top of the staircase, you're in room 4, the Hall of the Horati and the Curiatii. The walls of this room are painted with beautiful murals of scenes from Rome's history.
Faustilus finds the She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus along the banks of the Tiber (1596), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. The she-wolf in the fresco clearly alludes to the Capitoline Wolf, which is located a few rooms later in the Capitoline Museum and is the symbol of Rome. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Battle of Tullus Hostilius against the Veientes and the Fidenates (1597-1601), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. The fresco shows a battle from the expansionist war fought by the Romans against neighbouring cities during the reign of Tullus Hostilius, third king of Rome. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Battle between Horatii and Curiatii (1612-1613), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. Rome fought a war against neighbouring city of Alba Longa, which resulted in a duel between the Horatii brothers of Rome, and the Curatii brothers of Alba Longa. In the fresco, the two armies watch the final scene of the duel, when the last of the Horatii is about to defeat the last of his opponents. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Rape of the Sabine Women (1635-1636), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. In order to populate their newly-built city of Rome, Romulus invited the neighboring Sabines to a festival, where the Roman men abducted the Sabine women so they could have wives. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Numa Pompilius Instituting the Cult of the Vestals (1636-1638), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Romulus traces the boundaries of Rome by tracing a furrow with a plow (1638-1639), in the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Capitoline Museum. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
These two famous statues are in the room.
Algardi's Statue of Pope Innocent X ,1645-1650, in the Hall of the Horati and the Curiatii in the the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bernini's Statue of Pope Urban VIII, 1635-1640, in the Hall of the Horati and the Curiatii in the the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Next pass into room 5, the Hall of the Captains.
Bernini's Memorial statue of Carlo Barberini, 1630, in the Hall of the Captains in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bernini's Memorial statue of Carlo Barberini, 1630, in the Hall of the Captains in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 6 is the Hall of Hannibal.
Fresco of Hannibal in Italy, by Iacopo Ripanda, 1508-9, in the Hall of Hannibal of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Fresco of Hannibal in Italy, by Iacopo Ripanda, 1508-9, in the Hall of Hannibal of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 7 is the Chapel
The chapel in the Conservators' Apartment of the Capitoline Museum (panorama of 2 images) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 8 is the Hall of the Triumphs, with several famous bronzes. The Capitoline Brutus, shown in the 1st two photos below, is a bust of Junius Brutus that was copied in marble after ancient times.
Capitoline Brutus, a 4th-3rd century BC bronze sculpture of Junius Brutus, the first Consul (president) of the Roman Republic, now in the Capitoline Museum. The painted ivory eyes are original. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Capitoline Brutus, a 4th-3rd century BC bronze sculpture of Junius Brutus, the first Consul (president) of the Roman Republic, now in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum. The painted ivory eyes are original. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Spinario, or Boy Extracting a Thorn, from ancient Greece, 1st century BC, bronze, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Spinario, or Boy Extracting a Thorn, from ancient Greece, 1st century BC, bronze, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Spinario, or Boy Extracting a Thorn, from ancient Greece, 1st century BC, bronze, in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Spinario, or Boy Extracting a Thorn, from ancient Greece, 1st century BC, bronze, in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Spinario, or Boy Extracting a Thorn, from ancient Greece, 1st century BC, bronze, in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Camillus, bronze sculpture from the 1st century AD, now in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Camillus (an acolyte who assisted at sacrifices), from the 1st century AD, in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Ancient bronze Krater (wide vase) with flutings below a frieze of lotus flowers inlaid with silver, in the Hall of the Triumphs of the Capitoline Museum. The inscription around the neck states it was from Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus 120-63 BC. The vase might have been brought back to Rome by Pompey the Great for his triumph of 62 BC, celebrating his victory over Mithridates the previous year. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 9 is the Hall of the She-Wolf is an incredibly important room, historically speaking. In the center is the very symbol of Rome, the She-Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. The inscription known as the Capitoline Fasti is attached to one of the walls. The Consular and Triumphal Fasti is a historical document of significant value which lists on marble tables the names of the Consuls (co-presidents, two elected each year for a 1-year term) of the Roman Republic, and also the the names of Triumphal Victors (victorious war generals). This wall lists the Consuls from 483 BC to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 BC to 19 BC. The base of another wall displays fragments of the Arch of Augustus, a Triumphal Arch dedicated to Augustus in the Roman Forum with only its foundation remaining in the Roman Forum today.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lupa Capitolina, or She-wolf of Rome or Capitoline She-wolf, showing the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus before they founded the city of Rome, bronze, from the 5th century BC or possibly the Middle Ages, in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Consular Fasti and the Triumphal Fasti, listing the consuls from 483 to 19 BC, and the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The top-piece of the Triumphal Fasti, listing the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum. This particularly precious fragment shows the name of Romulus, founder of Rome, who celebrated three triumphs. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The top-piece of the Triumphal Fasti, listing the Triumphs from 753 to 19 BC, once mounted to the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum. This particularly precious fragment shows the name of Romulus, founder of Rome, who celebrated three triumphs. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Fragments of the Arch of Augustus (The Fasti Consulares) from the Roman Forum, in the Hall of the She-Wolf in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Fragments of the Arch of Augustus (The Fasti Consulares) in the Roman Forum, now in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The mosaic floor in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum is an invaluable ancient artefact found in 1893 See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Coffered ceiling in the Hall of the She-Wolf of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 10 is the Hall of the Geese, where Bernini's famous Bust of Medusa is located.
Medusa, by Bernini, in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone, sculpted by Bernini at the moment she looked into a mirror and realized she was turning into stone herself, now in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone, sculpted by Bernini at the moment she looked into a mirror and realized she was turning into stone herself, now in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone, sculpted by Bernini at the moment she looked into a mirror and realized she was turning into stone herself, now in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone, sculpted by Bernini at the moment she looked into a mirror and realized she was turning into stone herself, now in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone, sculpted by Bernini at the moment she looked into a mirror and realized she was turning into stone herself, now in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Michelangelo, and the two geese, in the Hall of the Geese in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bronze Bust of Michelangelo, in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bronze Bust of Michelangelo, in the Hall of the Geese of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 11 is the Hall of Tapestries
A tapestry copy of Rubens' Romulus and Remus Suckled by the She-Wolf, in the Hall of the Tapestries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 12 is the Hall of the Eagles
Diana Ephesian, a marble and bronze copy of the 2nd century BC statue worshiped in the Sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus, a symbol of fertility with her extreme draping of numerous bull testicles or perhaps breasts, now in Hall of the Eagles of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Diana Ephesian, a marble and bronze copy of the 2nd century BC statue worshiped in the Sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus, a symbol of fertility with her extreme draping of numerous bull testicles or perhaps breasts, now in Hall of the Eagles of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Diana Ephesian, a marble and bronze copy of the 2nd century BC statue worshiped in the Sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus, a symbol of fertility with her extreme draping of numerous bull testicles or perhaps breasts, now in Hall of the Eagles of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
We now exit the original part (16th century Conservators' Apartment) of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum, originally from 1876, but extensively renovated in 2005
Rooms 13, 14, and 15, The Castellani Galleries
Etruscan pottery in the Castellani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Etruscan pottery in the Castellani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Etruscan pottery in the Castellani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Etruscan pottery in the Castellani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bas-relief from the Tomb of the Dogs, from Tolfa, from the 6th century BC, now in the Castellani Hall I of the Capitoline Museum. The tomb depicted a hunting scene with two dogs sniffing the ground as they hunted a stag. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bas-relief from the Tomb of the Dogs, from Tolfa, from the 6th century BC, now in the Castellani Hall I of the Capitoline Museum. The tomb depicted a hunting scene with two dogs sniffing the ground as they hunted a stag. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bas-relief from the Tomb of the Dogs, from Tolfa, from the 6th century BC, now in the Castellani Hall I of the Capitoline Museum. The tomb depicted a hunting scene with two dogs sniffing the ground as they hunted a stag. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 21 Horti Lamiani Gallery
Commodus as Hercules flanked by two Tritons, in Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Torso of triton or sea centaurm, 180-193AD, Marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus as Hercules, wearing a lion skin, 180-193AD, marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Torso of triton or sea centaur, 180-193AD, Marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Torso of triton or sea centaurm, 180-193AD, Marble, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Head of a Centaur, made from Asian marble, from 14-37 AD, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Esquiline Venus, from the early imperial period, a statue of Aphrodite emerging from the water, maybe an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Esquiline Venus, from the early imperial period, a statue of Aphrodite emerging from the water, maybe an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Esquiline Venus, from the early imperial period, a statue of Aphrodite emerging from the water, maybe an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Esquiline Venus, from the early imperial period, a statue of Aphrodite emerging from the water, maybe an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Esquiline Venus, from the early imperial period, a statue of Aphrodite emerging from the water, maybe an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, initially erected in 176 or 180 AD, once at the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Head from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum. In 2021, the index finger, which was on display in the Lourve, was reunited with the hand. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Original fragments from the bronze Colossus of Constantine, found in the baths of the Quirinal and transferred by Pope Clement XII to the portico of St. John Lateran, now in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lion Attacking a Horse, a Greek marble from the Hellenistic Period, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lion Attacking a Horse, a greek marble from the Hellenistic Period, now in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 17 Area of the Temple of Jupiter
Hercules of the Forum Boarium, gilded bronze from the 2nd century BC, originally in a Temple to Hercules near the Temple of Hercules Victor, now in the Capitoline Museum (background wall is from the Temple of Jupiter) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Hercules of the Forum Boarium, gilded bronze from the 2nd century BC, originally in a Temple to Hercules near the Temple of Hercules Victor, now in the Capitoline Museum (background wall is from the Temple of Jupiter) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Hercules of the Forum Boarium, gilded bronze from the 2nd century BC, originally in a Temple to Hercules near the Temple of Hercules Victor, now in the Capitoline Museum (background wall is from the Temple of Jupiter) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum (panorama of 2 images) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Foundations of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline from 600 BC, under the Capitoline Museum (panorama of 2 images) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 18 Terracottas from the St. Omobono area
Terracotta decorations from the Temple of Mater Matuta in the Sacred Area of San Omobono, now the Area of the Temple of Jupiter in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Terracotta decorations from the Temple of Mater Matuta in the Sacred Area of San Omobono, now the Area of the Temple of Jupiter in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 20 and 19 Galleries of Maecenas's Gardens
Mosaic with Orestes and Iphigenia, from the 2nd-3rd century AD, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Mosaic with Orestes and Iphigenia, from the 2nd-3rd century AD, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Head of an Amazon, a Roman marble copy of a bronze original created for the artistic contest for the town of Ephesus that took place in 440-430 BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Serpentine Marble Dog which decorated the entrance to a pavilion, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Serpentine Marble Dog which decorated the entrance to a pavilion, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Fighting Hercules, a pentelic marble Roman copy of an original of the late 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Fighting Hercules, a pentelic marble Roman copy of an original of the late 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Marsyas, condemned to be flayed alive, a copy made during the early Roman imperial age of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Marsyas, condemned to be flayed alive, a copy made during the early Roman imperial age of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Marsyas, condemned to be flayed alive, a copy made during the early Roman imperial age of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Marsyas, condemned to be flayed alive, a copy made during the early Roman imperial age of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Dog, green marble, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Fighting Hercules, copy of an original from the late 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Fighting Hercules, copy of an original from the late 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti of Maecenas of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 22 Horti Lamiani Galleries
Torso of Dionysius, 200-160 BC, in the Gallery of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Group of Two Girls Playing, a Roman copy of a Greek original from the end of the 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Group of Two Girls Playing, a Roman copy of a Greek original from the end of the 4th century BC, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A section of the 'di Palombara' alabaster floor, now in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A section of the 'di Palombara' alabaster floor, now in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A section of the 'di Palombara' alabaster floor, now in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A section of the 'di Palombara' alabaster floor, now in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A section of the 'di Palombara' alabaster floor, now in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Sarcophagus with the Calydonian Boar Hunt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum. At the center of the scene, Meleager hunts the Calydonian boar before Artemis, the goddess of hunting. On the lid is a reclining couple with their heads still unfinished. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Sarcophagus with the Calydonian Boar Hunt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum. At the center of the scene, Meleager hunts the Calydonian boar before Artemis, the goddess of hunting. On the lid is a reclining couple with their heads still unfinished. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Sarcophagus with the Calydonian Boar Hunt, in the Halls of the Horti Lamiani of the Capitoline Museum. At the center of the scene, Meleager hunts the Calydonian boar before Artemis, the goddess of hunting. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Head of a Centaur, from the Tiberian period, in the Horti Lamiani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Head of a Centaur, from the Tiberian period, in the Horti Lamiani Galleries of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 22 Horti Tauriani and Vettiani Galleries
Portrait of Domitian, circa 90 AD, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Portrait of Domitian, circa 90 AD, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Portrait of Hadrian, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Krater with the Wedding of Paris and Helen, from the 1st century AD, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Krater with Bacchic Scenes, portraying a Dionysiac train with satyrs and menads overwhelmed by the rhythm of orgiastic dances, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Portrat of Constantine or of one of his sons, from before 330 AD, in the Halls of the Horti Tauriani and Vettiani of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief with Dancing Maenad, a copy of a Greek original from 406-405 BC, in the Gallery of the Horti of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 22 Rooms of the Modern Fasti
Highly detailed marble sarcophagus in deep relief, in the Halls of the Modern Fasti in the Capitoline Museum. Fragments of the Modern Fasti (lists of Roman magristrates from 1640 onwards) are on the wall. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 23 Medieval Room
The bronze ball with traces of gilding from the first half of the 1st century AD, once on top of the Vatican Obelisk, with bullet holes, rumored to once contain Caesar's ashes, now in the Medieval Room of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The bronze ball with traces of gilding from the first half of the 1st century AD, once on top of the Vatican Obelisk, with bullet holes, rumored to once contain Caesar's ashes, in Medieval Room of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Panel from the dismantled Epistle Pulpit in the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, was originally part of an ancient Mensa, a marble basin with decorated border dating from the 4th century AD, now in the Medieval Room of the Capitoline Museum. The wide circular decorative band with marble reliefs depicts seven scenes from the life of Achilles. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Portrait of Constantius II (337-361) or of his brother Constans (337-350), in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
That finishes off the Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
Return to the Grand Staircase and go upward. On the 3rd landing are several interesting works of art, including two works of Opus Sectile (3rd and 4th photos below), which is explained beside the more numerous examples of it in the National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo:
Relief from the Arch of Portugal, showing Hadrian, on the high podium, presides over a ceremony linked to the distribution of food to Roman children, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A relief from the Arch of Portugal, now on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum, which depicts the apotheosis of the Empress Sabina, who was the wife of Hadrian and deified after her death. The emperor, seated on a throne, with the personification of the Campus Martius, is present at the apotheosis of Sabina who emerges from a funeral pyre on the shoulders of a winged female figure, identified as the personification of Eternity. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Panel in Opus Sectile displaying a tiger attacking a calf, with polychromatic marbles from the Basilica of Junius Bassus, now on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Panel in Opus Sectile displaying a tiger attacking a calf, with polychromatic marbles from the Basilica of Junius Bassus, now on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Tiberius, from the 1st century AD, now on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Julius Caesar, modern, on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Hadrian, on the 3rd landing of the main staircase of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Go up to the top of the Grand Staircase into the Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) of Palazzo dei Conservatori (Google Street View)
Room 24 Hall I
Modena's 'The Ascension', Tempera on Wood, in Hall 1 of the Capitoline Museum's Picture Gallery See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 26 Hall III
Tiziano's 'The Baptism of Christ', oil on wood, 1512, , in Hall 3 of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Veronese's 'The Rape of Europa', oil on canvas, 1580, in Hall 3 of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. Europa, daughter of the King of Tyre, was kidnapped by Jove, who, having disguised himself as a white bull, took her to the isle of Crete. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 26a Hall V
d'Arpino's 'Diana as Hunteress', oil on wood, 1600-01, in Hall 5 of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 27 Hall VI
Reni's 'Saint Sebastian', oil on canvas, 1615, in Hall 6 of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. Saint Sebastian was an officer in the Praetorian Guard during the time of Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD) who became a Christian and suffered martyrdom at the hands of his fellow officers. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 28 Hall of St. Petronilla
Guercino's 'Burial of Saint Petronilla', 1623, in the Hall of St. Petronilla of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. At the bottom, the gravediggers lower Saint Petronilla, Saint Peter's daughter, into her tomb. Above, she kneels before Christ who is receiving her in Heaven. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Rubens' 'Romus and Remus', 1810s, in the Hall of St. Petronilla of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. The shepherd Faustilus finds the twins, founders of Rome, being fed by the she-wolf. Participants in the detailed naturalistic scene are Rhea Sylvia, the vestal mother of the twins, and an old man representing the Tiber. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Caravaggio's 'The Fortune Teller', oil on canvas, 1595, in the Hall of St. Petronilla of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. Pretending to read the young man's hand, the gypsy is actually stealing his ring. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 32 Pietro da Cortona Hall
Cortona's 'The Rape of the Sabines', oil on canvas, 1629, in the Pietro da Cortona Hall of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery. After Romulus formed Rome, the romans kidnapped the Sabine women during a festival to make them their wives. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 34 Anton van Dyck Room
Van Dyke's 'Lucas and Cornelis de Wael', oil on canvas, 1627, in the Anton van Dyck Room of the Capitoline Museum Picture Gallery See all Capitoline Museum photos.
And so ends the Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) of Palazzo dei Conservatori
On this same floor is the Palazzo Clementino - Caffarelli
First, a coffee shop with a scenic terrace
The Theatre of Marcellus and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, from the Scenic Terrace of the Cafe in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Pantheon, and a surprising number of TV Dish Antennae from the Scenic Terrace of the Cafe in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 35, the Hall of the Pediment
The Terracotta pediment from a temple from the middle of the 2nd century BC found on Via di San Gregorio, between the Palatine and the Caelian Hills, below a layer of the Neronian fire of 64 AD, now in the Hall of the Pediment of the Capitoline Museum. The temple was either the Temple of Fortuna Respiciens on the Palatine or the Temple of Mars on the Caelian. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The central portion of the terracotta pediment from a temple from the middle of the 2nd century BC found on Via di San Gregorio, between the Palatine and the Caelian Hills, below a layer of the Neronian fire of 64 AD, now in the Hall of the Pediment of the Capitoline Museum. The temple was either the Temple of Fortuna Respiciens on the Palatine or the Temple of Mars on the Caelian. Just left of the peak is Hercules and the Sea Monster for the freeing of Hesione. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The central portion of the terracotta pediment from a temple from the middle of the 2nd century BC found on Via di San Gregorio, between the Palatine and the Caelian Hills, below a layer of the Neronian fire of 64 AD, now in the Hall of the Pediment of the Capitoline Museum. The temple was either the Temple of Fortuna Respiciens on the Palatine or the Temple of Mars on the Caelian. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Tiberius, near the Hall of the Pediment in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Julius Caesar, near the Hall of the Pediment in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Septimius Severus, near the Hall of the Pediment in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marcus Aurelius, near the Hall of the Pediment in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 36, the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection
Egyptian scarabs with royal names from the 2nd-1st millennium BC, in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Etruscan scarabs from the 4th-3rd century BC, in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Roman portraits from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD, in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Roman portraits from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD, in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Portraits from the 19th century, in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Ancient Roman Coins in the Capitoline Coin and Medal Collection of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
And that's the end of the Palazzo Clementino - Caffarelli and also the entire Palazzo dei Conservatori
Your should now walk downstairs to the very bottom of the stairway, below ground level. This puts you in Room 38, a long hallway named the Epigraphic Gallery (Gallery of Inscriptions) containing lots of inscriptions in stone. If you go straight through the Epigraphic Gallery you'll end up in the Palazzo Nuovo, the third of three buildings in the Capitoline Museum, and my favorite place thus far in the entire world. But 2/3 of the way through that underground hallway called the Epigraphic Gallery is another hallway going off to the right, the only branch off the Epigraphic Gallery, and you will go into that hallway to see Room 39 - the Temple of Veiovis and Room 40 - the Tabularium Gallery, both of which are under the Palazzo Senatorio which is the City Hall of Rome, closed to the public. After you see those two rooms, you'll make your way back into the Epigraphic Gallery and continue on to the Palazzo Nuovo, a place you'll never forget.
Under the Palazzo Senatorio - the second of three buildings in the Capitoline Museum
Room 38 - the Epigraphic Gallery
Galleria Lapidaria, the gallery of inscriptions, in the underground passageway connecting the two palazzos of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Galleria Lapidaria, the gallery of inscriptions, in the underground passageway connecting the two palazzos of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Slab with an imperial inscription reused as a sarcophagus lid, in the Epigrapic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Funerary Stele of Anicetus, from the second half of the 2nd century AD, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum. 'For souls departed. The instructor and expert gladiator (first among gladiators armed with a sword) Aelius Marcion saw to (the making of this tomb) for the well-deserving Anicetus, gladiator armed with a sword and specialized in attacks.' See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Edict of the Prefect Tarracius Bassus, from 375-6 AD, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum. 'By order of Tarracius Bassus, illustrious senator, prefect of the city of Rome, the names of shopkeepers have been inscribed on a bronze table who took for themselves, contrary to Roman customs and neglecting the edicts of prefects of the city, public money, seats at the games to which they were not entitled, and bread of the people.' See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Proclamation for the Location of Imperial Storehouses, from the second half of the 1st century AD, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue base dedicated to the emperor Caracalla by the fifth cohort of watchmen, 210 AD, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Base of a statue dedicated in 136 AD to Hadrian by the chiefs of the 14 administrative districts of Rome, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum. This is of great historical importance because it lists 5 of the 14 superintendants of districts of Rome during Hadrian's rule, and because it is one of the first archaeological pieces to have been put on display in the Capitoline Museum, dating to the 15th century. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Be sure to take the hallway to the right when it appears.
Room 39 - the Temple of Veiovis (in the hallway to the right)
The hallway begins with several interesting artefacts, then you arrive at the Temple of Veiovis on the right side of the hallway. This is a very confusing bit for me; I think that during my visits of 2012-2014 the temple was being excavated or restored, and that's why I couldn't make much sense of it.
The original frieze of a Sabine horseman, in the Roman Forum, believed to be linked with the Lacus Curtius, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The original frieze of a Sabine horseman, in the Roman Forum, believed to be linked with the Lacus Curtius, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Roma in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Headless statue of, perhaps, Jove, found in the Temple of Veiove (AKA Vediovis), in the underground passageway connecting the two palazzos of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Temple of Veiovis (AKA Vediovis), behind glass, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museumbehind glass, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Temple of Veiovis (AKA Vediovis), Built between 82 BC and 52 BC, behind glass, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Temple of Veiovis (AKA Vediovis), Built between 82 BC and 52 BC, behind glass, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Temple of Veiove (AKA Vediovis), in the underground passageway connecting the two palazzos of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Temple of Veiove (AKA Vediovis), in the underground passageway connecting the two palazzos of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Part of the Temple of Veiovis (AKA Vediovis), behind glass high above the hallway, in the hallway leading to the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 40 - the Tabularium Gallery
Let's start with a photo of the Tabularium from a few blocks away outside. The large yellow building in the center of the first photo below is the Palazzo Senatorio, viewed from the back. The 3 very large arches near the bottom are part of the ancient Tabularium, a storehouse for records and offices for city officials. You can read more about the Tabularium here. The second photo is a close-up of one of those arches, showing the people looking out over the forum from behind the railing, and giving a hint of the arches running across the length of the Tabularium.
The Porticus Deorum Consentium and Tabularium in the Roman Forum from Via Monte Tarpio See all Capitoline Museum photos.
An archway in the Tabularium of the Roman Forum, from near the Mamertine Prison See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Now we switch to the view inside the Tabularium Gallery in the Capitoline Museum and looking out over the Roman Forum.
The view from the Tabularium, now part of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
View of the Roman Forum from the Tabularium, with the foudations of the Temple of Concord in the foreground, in front of the Arch of Septemius Severus See all Capitoline Museum photos.
View of the Roman Forum from the Tabularium, now part of the Capitoline Museum (panorama of 3 photos) See all Capitoline Museum photos.
View of the Roman Forum from the Tabularium, now part of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Rostra of Caesar and the Umbilicus Urbis and the roof covering the Altar of Saturn in the Roman Forum, from the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum. Behind the Rostra of Caesar is the back of the Rostra of Augustus, the base of the Column of Phocas, the Tree Trees, to its left, and the roof of the Lacus Curtius between then. The steps of the Basilica Julia are at upper-right. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Arch of Septimius Severus, Arch of Titus, Column of Phocas, Temple of Castor and Pollux, and Domus Tiberiana in the Roman Forum, from the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum from the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Arch of Titus, Temple of Vesta, Column of Phocas, and Temple of Castor and Pollux, in the Roman Forum, from the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (left) and the Temple of Saturn (right), in the Roman Forum, from the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, Temple of Vespasian and Titus, Column of Phocas and Temple of Castor and Pollux, in the Roman Forum, from the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
There are a few interesting things to see within the Tabularium Gallery in addition to the view outside. The first 6 photos below are of artefacts on display here, and the others are looking down into two dungeon-like rooms on the non-Forum-side of the gallery. One of these rooms is called the Executioner's Room. Sorry for the difficult-to-interpret angles - most of those are shot nearly straight down, the only angle that was available with the lighting.
Plaster cast of a large fragment of an architrave from the Temple of Vespasian and Titus with reliefs showing sacrificial instruments from the 1st century AD, in the Tabularium of the Capitoline Museum. The implements, from left to right, are a Bucranium (ox skull), Apex (priest's cap), Hydria (water vessel), Culter (knife), Patera (shallow bowl) with Securis (axe) below it, Aspergillum (holy water sprinkler), and another Bucranium. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Inscription of the Funerary Monument of Lucius Vettenius Musa Campester, from the early 1st century AD, in the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum. 'You see the funerary monument of Lucius Vettenius Musa Campester, place of rest for those who are tired of life, exhausted by a life conducted in many different regions, tranquility welcomes him to a deathly abode, death renders us free of wealth and poverty, in fact, nature forces us to spend our lives in anxiety.' See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Unknown base of a statue, in the Capitoline Museum's gallery of inscriptions or the hallway to the Tabularium See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Plaster cast of a large fragment of an architrave from the Temple of Vespasian and Titus with reliefs showing sacrificial instruments from the 1st century AD, in the Tabularium of the Capitoline Museum. The implements, from left to right, are a Bucranium (ox skull), Apex (priest's cap), Hydria (water vessel), Culter (knife), Patera (shallow bowl) with Securis (axe) below it, Aspergillum (holy water sprinkler), and another Bucranium. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Reconstructed (by L. Canina) Cornice from the 1st century AD Temple of Concord, in the Tabularium gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Large fragment of an architrave from the 1st century AD Temple of Concordia, in the Tabularium gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cocciopesto floor from the 2nd century BC (the oldest floor in Rome) in a room in the basement of the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cocciopesto floor from the 2nd century BC (the oldest floor in Rome) in a room in the basement of the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cocciopesto floor from the 2nd century BC (the oldest floor in Rome) in a room in the basement of the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cocciopesto floor from the 2nd century BC (the oldest floor in Rome) in a room in the basement of the Tabularium, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Floor from a nearby ancient building, mounted to the wall in the basement of the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Floor from a nearby ancient building, mounted to the wall in the basement of the Tabularium Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Now return through that same hallway back to Room 38, the Epigraphic Gallery, and turn right to continue on into the Palazzo Nuovo. Near the exit to the Palazzo Nuovo, be sure to see the fragment of
Remains of the Servian Wall, at the bottom of the steps to the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Epigraphic Gallery of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Palazzo Nuovo - the third of three buildings in the Capitoline Museum
The 18th century Palazzo Nuovo retains much of its original charm and decoration. It was opened to the public as a museum in 1734, under Pope Clement XII. It consists of 3 sections:
A small rectangular courtyard, housing ancient sculptures and a fountain
Fountain in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum, with the talking statue of Marforio, from the 2nd century AD See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Fountain in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum, with the talking statue of Marforio, from the 2nd century AD See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The face of the talking statue of Marforio, from the 2nd century AD, in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Details of the fountain in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum, with the talking statue of Marforio See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Details of the fountain in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum, with the talking statue of Marforio See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The right-more of the two Satyrs of the Valley, which depict Pan, the Greek god of nature, linked to the cult of Dionysus, found near the Theater of Pompey, now in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The left-more of the two Satyrs of the Valley, which depict Pan, the Greek god of nature, linked to the cult of Dionysus, found near the Theater of Pompey, now in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Column with Egyptising reliefs, granite, from the beginning of imperial age, in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 42, Egyptian Collection
The Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovi of the Capitoline Museum. The granite columns have Egyptising reliefs, and are from the beginning of imperial age. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Pink assuan granite Sphinx, found near the Temple of Isis in the Campus Martius, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Pink assuan granite Crocodile, found near apse of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a location which was once the Temple of Isis in the Campus Martius, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Sphynx of Pharoah Amasis II, a 6th century BC Egyptian sculpture in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Basanite Sphinx of the Pharoa Amasis II, from 568-526 BC, found near the apse of the churhc of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a location which was once the Temple of Isis in the Campus Martius, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statuette of the Pharoah Ramses II, grey granite, from 1301-1235 BC, found in 1882 on Via Nazionale, from the Temple of Serapis built on the Quirinal Hill by Caracalla, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Black granite Sparrowhawk, from the early Ptolomaic period, found in Villa Casali on the Caelian Hill in 1885, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Grey granite Monkey, from 359-341 BC, found near apse of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a location which was once the Temple of Isis in the Campus Martius, now in the Egyptian Room in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 43, Atrium and Ground Floor Rooms
All my photos are from the Atrium, I either missed the 3 small Ground Floor Rooms or maybe they were closed (for all three of my visits?)
Colossal Statue of Mars, found in the Forum of Nerva in the 16th century, now in the Atrium of the Capitoline Museum. Originally thought to be a statue of Pyrrhus, the statue was probably located outside the Temple of Mars Ultor in the Forum of Augustus See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Travertine Cippus (tombstone) of the emperor Vespasian, in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Diana the Huntress, a Roman copy of the Greek original of the 4th century BC, found at Villa d'Este, now in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Diana the Huntress, a Roman copy of the Greek original of the 4th century BC, part of the delle Valle collection, now in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Mercury, a Roman copy of the Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Minerva from the 2nd century BC, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Minerva from the 2nd century BC, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Minerva, 2nd century BC, now in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of the Empress Faustina the Elder, wife of Antoninus Pius, depicted as the goddess Ceres, proctecteress of agriculture, holding a cornucopia, now in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hadrian, as Pontifex Maximus, found in Santo Stefano Rotondo in the 16th century, now in the Atrium of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Grand Staircase
Now go up the Grand Staircase, being sure to see the objects on the landing, photographed below.
Front of sarcophagus with lion hunt, from the 3rd century AD, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The front of a sarcophagus of a lion hunt, 3rd century AD, found on Via Appia in 1817, now on the main stairway landing between the ground floor and the first floor of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Augustus, on the main stairway landing between the ground floor and the first floor of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Tiberius, from the 17th century, on the main stairway landing between the ground floor and the first floor of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Once you reach the top, your view straight ahead is of the 1st photo below. Save this "best room" for last, though. We'll start with the Calyx Krater on your left (2nd and 3rd photos below), and work our way down this long main corridor (called the Gallery) to your right (4th photo below), stopping off at the rooms on the right side of that corridor. Then we'll make our way back by going through the interconnected rooms on the left side of this corridor and ending up in the room at the top of the Grand Staircase in the 1st photo below. The gallery (corridor) itself has more than 100 sculptures on display of various sizes, subjects, polish and character, offering a unique overview of art handed down to us from antiquity. You are now in a special place on Earth, from here to the end of the museum, my favorite place in the world. The arrangement of the works was decided by the Marquis Alessandro Capponi, commisioned by Pope Clement XII, which led to the opening of the Museum in 1734. I hope you enjoy the sculpture as much as I do.
The first peek into the spectacular Hall of the Gladiator, from the top of the stairs to the first floor of the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum. The Wounded Gaul is in the center of the room, Cupid and Psyche are embracing in front of the window, and Flora is to their right. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Calyx Krater from 27BC-14AD, found in the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, now at the end of the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum, with the beautiful old distorted glass windows behind it See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Calyx Krater from 27BC-14AD, found in the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, now at the end of the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum, with the beautiful old distorted glass windows behind it See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hercules restored as killing the Hydra of Lerna, from the early Hellenistic period, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hercules restored as killing the Hydra of Lerna, from an original of the Early Hellenistic period. Modern restoration by Alessandro Algardi (17th century), in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of Hercules and the Hydra, a 2nd century Roman copy if a 4th century Greek sculpture by Lysippus, modified extensively in the 17th century by Alessandro Algardi, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hercules restored as killing the Hydra of Lerna, from an original of the Early Hellenistic period. Modern restoration by Alessandro Algardi (17th century), in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of Hercules and the Hydra, a 2nd century Roman copy if a 4th century Greek sculpture by Lysippus, modified extensively in the 17th century by Alessandro Algardi, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Eros Stringing His Bow, from a 4th century BC original by Lysippos , in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Leda with the Swan, from original by the sculptor Timotheos (360 BC), in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Leda with the Swan, from original by the sculptor Timotheos (360 BC), in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Leda and the Swan, a 4th century Greek sculptural representation of the erotic theme of Leda and Zeus in the guise of a swan, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. From this union were born Helen of Troy and the divine twins Castor and Pollux. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Leda and the Swan, a 4th century Greek sculptural representation of the erotic theme of Leda and Zeus in the guise of a swan, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. From this union were born Helen of Troy and the divine twins Castor and Pollux. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Satyr, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 45, Hall of the Doves
The hall is named after the magnificent Mosaic of the Doves, but also holds a mosaic of a theater scene, the beautiful statue of the Young Girl with Dove, who is defending the dove from the attack of a dog, and fragments of the Tabula Illica, a slab which represents episodes of the Trojan War, and also bronze tablets with inscriptions, such as the Decree of Pompeo Strabone, which granted Roman citizenship to Hispanic knights who had fought with the Romans in Ascoll.
The Mosaic of the Doves, found in 1737 in the center of the floor of 'the academy' room at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, now in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Four doves, one of which is drinking, in a bronze bowl. This is a copy of the artist Sosos from Pergamon in the 2nd century BC, another copy was found in the House of the Faun in Pompeii. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Mosaic of the Theatrical Masks, from the 2nd century AD, found in front of the church of Santa Prisca on the Aventune Hill in 1824, now in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Girl with the Dove on a Tripod with Griffins, Roman copy of the Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. The girl protects the dove from the attack of a snake at her feet. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Girl with the Dove on a Tripod with Griffins, Roman copy of the Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. The girl protects the dove from the attack of a snake at her feet. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Girl with the Dove on a Tripod with Griffins, Roman copy of the Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. The girl protects the dove from the attack of a snake at her feet. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Girl with the Dove on a Tripod with Griffins, Roman copy of the Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. The girl protects the dove from the attack of a snake at her feet. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hall of the Doves, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hall of the Doves, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Sarcophagus of the myth of Prometheus, from the 3rd century AD, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Athena, Roman copy of a Greek original from the 5th century BC, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Decree of Pompeius Strabo, which conceeded particular privileges to some Spanish knights who fought on the side of the Romans at the Battle of Asculum during the Social War of 90-89 BC), now in a glass display case in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bronze tabula, from 260 AD, recording the honorific title of patron that the guild of the Fabri of Sentinum bestowed to Coretius Fuscus, now in a glass display case in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Senatus Consultum regarding Asclepiades of Klazomenes and his allies, the oldest remains of a Senate decree in Bronze, from 78 BC, almost entire preserved, now in a glass display case in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. It tells of the conferral of the title amici populi Romani to three Greek navarchs that had fought on the side of the Romans during the Social War or the Sullan War. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Decree of Pompeius Strabo, which conceeded particular privileges to some Spanish knights who fought on the side of the Romans at the Battle of Asculum during the Social War of 90-89 BC), now in a glass display case in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Trajan, in the Hall of the Doves of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Back out to Room 44, Gallery
Torso of Discobolus that Myron sculpted in 460 BC, reworked around 1700 as a wounded warrior in the moment of falling, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Torso of Discobolus that Myron sculpted in 460 BC, reworked around 1700 as a wounded warrior in the moment of falling, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Torso of Discobolus that Myron sculpted in 460 BC, reworked around 1700 as a wounded warrior in the moment of falling, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Drunken Old Women, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 3th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Reassembled from many fragments, an old woman holds tightly onto a wine vase. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of "Drunk old woman", from the hellenistic period, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Drunken Old Women, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 3th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Reassembled from many fragments, an old woman holds tightly onto a wine vase. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Drunken Old Women, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 3th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Reassembled from many fragments, an old woman holds tightly onto a wine vase. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Roman Matron with Son, from the 1st century AD, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Baby Hercules Who Strangles the Snakes, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. It has been interpreted as a portrait of Caracalla as a baby, or Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius' son. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Faustina Minor, 161-170 AD, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Muse, a draped female statue with an irrelevant modern head, from an original of the 5th century BC, from Villa d'Este, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Antinous, lover of Hadrian, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
A view out the back of the Palazzo Nuovo through its gorgeous distorted windows, at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, from the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Aphrodite, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Aphrodite, a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Psyche, from the Hellenistic period, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Seated male statue with head of Augustus, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Giove Della Valle, in the Gallery of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Winged Psyche, from the Hellenistic period, from Villa d'Este, now in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Apollo, of type 'Anzio', a Roman copy of a 4th century BC Greek original, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 47, Capitoline Venus
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of the fouth-century BC Greek original by Praxiteles, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Back out to Room 44, Gallery
Septimius Severus, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Woman Seated with Her Child, from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Zeus, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Scipione Africano, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Satyr, from a Hellenistic original, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Scipio Africanus, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Scipio Africanus, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Satyr, from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Caracalla, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Caracalla, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Juvenile portrait of Marcus Aurelius, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Juvenile portrait of Marcus Aurelius, in the Gallery of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Dioniso, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Dioniso, in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 48, Hall of the Emperors
The Hall of the Emperors is organized as a seated woman in the center of the room, surrounded on all sides by shelves filled with the busts of Roman Emperors and a few of their wives. For more information about the Emperors, see my Emperors and Other Famous People page.
Statue of a seated woman with the head of Helena, mother of Constantine, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a seated woman with the head of Helena, mother of Constantine, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Seated figure of Helena, the mother of Constantine, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a seated woman with the head of Helena, mother of Constantine, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Busts of Roman Emperors in the Hall of the Emperors in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Piazza del Campidoglio, from through an old distorted glass window in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Details of the Emperors follow:
Nero, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nero, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Tiberius, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nero, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nero, from around 55 AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nero, restored in the 17th century, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nero, restored in the 17th century, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Caracalla, around 211 AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Caracalla or Geta, from around 211 AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Macrinus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Macrinus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Vespasian, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Titus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Elagabalus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nerva, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Trajan, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Trajan, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Hadrian, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Antoninus Pius, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Juvenile Marcus Aurelius, about 140 AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Alexander Severus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Maximinius the Tracian, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Gordian I, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Pupienus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marcus Aurelius, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Lucius Verus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Gordian Pius, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Trajanus Decius, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Gallienus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Probus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Valens, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Octavian, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Octavian, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Livia, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Livia, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Augustus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Commodus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Clodius Albinus, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Nerva, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Marcus Aurelius, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Trajan, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Livia, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Augustus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Commodus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Tiberius, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Germanicus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Septimius Severus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Caracalla, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Caracalla, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Caracalla, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Vespasian, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Titus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Nerva, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Germanicus, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Nero, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Nerva, in the Hall of the Emperors of Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Above the Emperors are several reliefs, some of which are shown below
Relief of Perseus and Andromeda, from the 2nd century AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Plaster cast of the two sides of a sarcophagus, philosopher and poet muses, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief with Endymion, a Greek shepherd, from the 1st century AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Relief dedicated to the sources and the nymphs, from the 2nd century AD, in the Hall of the Emperors of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 49, Hall of the Philosophers
Marcellus, from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Hall of the Philosophers of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 50, Great Hall
Statue of Young Centaur signed by Aristeas and Papias, a lucullan marble sculpture from 117-138 AD, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Young Centaur in grey marble, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Young Centaur in grey marble, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
God of Medicine - Asclepius (Asclepio) in gray marble, 2nd century AD after a Greek original, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Zeus in grey marble, from the 2nd century AD, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Athena Promachos, from the 4th century BC Greek original, found at Villa d'Este, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Muse, restored as Flora, from a 4th century BC Greek original, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Minor, as Mars and Venus, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
'Capitoline Type' Amazon, attributed to the works of Polyclitus, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marius, the Republican general and politician, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Marius, the Republican general and politician, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Hadrian in the Great Hall of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Augustus in the Great Hall of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Augustus, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Trajan in the Great Hall of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Trajan in the Great Hall of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Athena, of the type on the west side of the Parthenon, from a 5th century BC Greek original, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of Apollo with the Lyre, a Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 51, Hunter with Hare (this is the right half of the Great Hall)
Statue of baby Hercules (Ercole Bambino) in basanite, 3rd century AD, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Baby Hercules, in Basanite, from the 3rd century AD, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of an Old Centaur of Lucullan marble signed by Aristeas and Papias, 117-138 BC, from Hadrian's Villa, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of a Old Centaur in grey marble, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Asclepius, from the 2nd century AD, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Loricate statue with the head of Marcus Aurelius, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Colossal Statue of Apollo with the Lyre, a Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Apollo, a Roman copy of the type called Kassel (460-450 BC) of Phidias, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Roma, from an original of the late 5th century BC, with a head from 140-150 AD, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Harpocrates, son of Isis and Osiris found in Hadrian's Villa, now in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hunter (Cacciatore). 3rd century AD, found in 1747 in a tomb on the Appian Way as a funerary statue of a man holding a hare and a spear, carved from a single block of marble, now in the Hunter with Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hunter (Cacciatore). 3rd century AD, found in 1747 in a tomb on the Appian Way as a funerary statue of a man holding a hare and a spear, carved from a single block of marble, now in the Hunter with Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hunter (Cacciatore). 3rd century AD, found in 1747 in a tomb on the Appian Way as a funerary statue of a man holding a hare and a spear, carved from a single block of marble, now in the Hunter with Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Hunter with the Hare, found near the Porta Latina in 1747, now in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. The portrait represents a person of the 2nd century AD, but the body recalls a Greek original of the 5th century BC representing Perseus in the act of lifting up the head of Medusa. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Artemis, from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Bust of Antoninus Pius in the Hunter with Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Demetra, restored as Hera, from an original of the late 5th century BC, attributed to Agoracritos, now in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Muse, from an original greek of the 4th century BC, perhaps representating Hera, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Muse, from an original greek of the 4th century BC, perhaps representating Hera, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Elderly Woman, from a Hellenistic original, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Elderly Woman, from a Hellenistic original, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Hermes, reworking of a 4th century BC original by Lysippos, from Hadrian's Villa, now in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue in the Hunter with Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Apollo of the Omphalos, Roman copy of a Greek statue by Kalamis, 480-460 BC, now in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Statue of Wounded Amazon signed by Sosikles, copy from an original by Polykleitos (5th century BC), in the Hunter With Hare room of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Wounded Amazon, the type attributed to Kresilas, 5th century BC, from Villa d'Este, in the Hunter with Hare room of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 52, Room of the Faun
Bronze slab with the Lex de imperio Vespasiani, listing the powers of Vespasian, written between Dec 69 and Jan 70 AD, now in the Hall of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Drunken Faun in rosso antico marble, connected with the cult of Dionysus, from Hadrian's Villa, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Surely the wine-red stone was chosen on purpose to depict this subject. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Drunken Faun in rosso antico marble, connected with the cult of Dionysus, from Hadrian's Villa, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum. Surely the wine-red stone was chosen on purpose to depict this subject. See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Mask of a Satyr, fro the 2nd century AD, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Boy With a Mask of Silenus, from the first part of the Imperial period, from a Greek prototype of the 2nd century BC, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Boy With a Goose, from a 2nd century BC bronze original, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Artemis, from a Greek original of the 4th century BC, in the Room of the Faun of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Room 53, Hall of the Gladiator
The Dying Gaul, or 'Gladiator', or the Capitoline Gaul, a wounded soldier from a Pergamene original, carved in Greek marble in the very expressive late Hellenistic style, found in 1623 in the area of the Gardens of Sallust on the Pincian Hill, now in the Hall of the Gladiator of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Dying Gaul, or 'Gladiator', or the Capitoline Gaul, a wounded soldier from a Pergamene original, carved in Greek marble in the very expressive late Hellenistic style, found in 1623 in the area of the Gardens of Sallust on the Pincian Hill, now in the Hall of the Gladiator of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Dying Gaul, or 'Gladiator', or the Capitoline Gaul, a wounded soldier from a Pergamene original, carved in Greek marble in the very expressive late Hellenistic style, found in 1623 in the area of the Gardens of Sallust on the Pincian Hill, now in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Dying Gaul, or 'Gladiator', or the Capitoline Gaul, a wounded soldier from a Pergamene original, carved in Greek marble in the very expressive late Hellenistic style, found in 1623 in the area of the Gardens of Sallust on the Pincian Hill, now in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator of Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cupid and Psyche, marble, from a Greek original of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator in Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Isis, from Hadrian's Villa, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Flora, from Hadrian's Villa, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Wounded Amazon, of the type based on Pehidias original work, from Villa d'Este, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Alexander Helios, son of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The Capitoline Antinous, found in Hadrian's Villa, the head of Antinous on a statue which is a copy of a Greek Hermes from the 4th century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Apollo Citaredo, a reworking of a sculpture from the school Praxiteles, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Apollo Citaredo, a reworking of a sculpture from the school Praxiteles, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Juno Cesi, from the second quarter of the 2nd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
An Augustan-era Prince, perhaps Marcellus, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Resting Satyr, a Roman copy of an original by Praxiteles, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Dionisius, a 2nd century AD copy of a Hellenistic original, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Cynic philosopher, 3rd century BC, in the Hall of the Gladiator of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
The ceiling of the Hall of the Gladiator in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum See all Capitoline Museum photos.
Here's one final photo I made inside the Palazzo Nuovo, but I can't remember from exactly where. Maybe the center outdoor-facing window in the Gallery was opened? Anyhow, here is Marforio, downstairs in the Palazzo Nuovo courtyard, through the net that keeps birds out of the courtyard.
Fountain in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum, with the talking statue of Marforio, from above in the Palazzo Nuovo See all Capitoline Museum photos.
And here's one final photo I made of Cupid and Psyche's embrace, through an open window of the Palazzo Nuovo during a warm Roman evening on the Piazza del Campidoglio.
Cupid and Psyche's embrace, through an open window of the Palazzo Nuovo during a warm evening on the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome See all Capitoline Museum photos.
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