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  Romeguide - Capitoline Hill, Campidoglio, Rome
Formerly in the Lateran square, the Marcus Aurelius was moved to the Capitoline in 1538 and had not apparently been previously taken into consideration by Michelangelo as decoration for the square.
The Palazzo Nuovo contains the Capitoline Museum, which is well known both for the wealth of material and for the fact that is the oldest museum colection in the world.
The staircase of the Capitoline with the statue of the Dioscuri and the Palzza Senatorio
www.romeguide.it /MONUM/STORICI/capitoline_hill/capitolium.htm   (604 words)

  
 Rome Museums: major museums in Rome Italy: Vatcian Museums, Villa Giulia, Villa Borghese, Capitoline Museums
Surely worthy of visiting, the Museum keeps the largest modern painting and sculpture collection of the capital; here you'll enjoy works by artists covering the period from the 1850 to the present such as the Ippolito Caffi, Giovanni Fattori, the futurists Balla, Boccioni and Severini but also Van Gogh, Cezanne, Kandinsky and Mirò.
The house was bought in 1907 by Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and soon transformed in a museum.
Museum keeps a lot of antique books, first editions and manuscripts, some curiosities such as a Keath's curl.
www.inrometoday.it /museums   (1590 words)

  
 Rome, Italy - Rome Churches and More
Capitoline Hill is the most sacred of the seven in Rome.
On the Capitoline Hill above the Forum is this ancient prison where St. Peter and Paul are said to have been held before their execution in Rome.
The Vatican Museums are among the best in the world, with treasures including classical sculptures, early Christian artifacts, ancient Egyptian mummies and masterpieces of Renaissance art.
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 Capitoline Hill and Capitoline Museum, Rome
The Capitoline Hill is where the city's first and holiest temples stood, including its most sacred, the Temple to Jupiter and the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno, and their daughter Minerva).
In ancient times, the Capitoline Hill's main features were the Temple of the Capitoline Triad and the Tabularium (hall of records), where the city's archives were kept.
The Capitoline Museum, built in the 17th century, was based on an architectural sketch by Michelangelo.
www.sacred-destinations.com /italy/rome-capitoline-hill-and-museum.htm   (1241 words)

  
  Roma Hoteli
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Canonica Museum Palazzo Corsini National Gallery Scuderie del Quirinale Spada Gallery The Early Middle Ages Museum Vatican Museums: The Raphael Loggia
Sergi Anthropology Museum Museum of Commodity Economics Museum of Physics Pathological Anatomy Museum The Medicine History Museum
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  Capitoline Museum (Museo Capitolino) and Palazzo dei Conservatori | Museum/Attraction Review | Rome | Frommers.com
Capitoline Museum (Museo Capitolino) and Palazzo dei Conservatori
Capitoline Museum (Museo Capitolino) and Palazzo dei Conservatori
The Capitoline Museum, built in the 17th century, was based on an architectural sketch by Michelangelo.
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  Capitoline Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus Mons), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the most famous and highest of the seven hills of Rome.
The role of the Capitoline Hill in city legend is linked with the recovery during the Regal period of a human head (the word for head in Latin is caput) when the foundation trenches were being dug for the Temple of Jupiter.
He effectively reversed the classical orientation of the Capitoline, in a symbolic gesture turning Rome’s civic center to face away from the Roman Forum and instead in the direction of Papal Rome and the Christian church in the form of St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capitoline_Hill   (1250 words)

  
 Capitoline Museums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years.
The statue of a mounted rider in the centre of the piazza is of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
In the three halls adjacent to the Appartamento dei Conservatori are to be found the showcases of the famous Castellani Collection with a part of the magnificent set of Greek and Etruscan vases that was donated to the Municipality of Rome by Augusto Castellani in the mid 19th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capitoline_Museums   (869 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian Museum of Lateran
In 1843 the "profane" Museum of the Lateran was founded by Gregory XVI, in whose pontificate also was mooted the idea of establishing a museum of Christian antiquities in the same edifice.
Christian Museum of the Lateran contains today a collection of monuments the study of which is indispensable to a proper appreciation of the earlier ages of Christianity.
The most interesting, perhaps, of all the inscribed monuments of the museum is that containing the famous epitaph of Abercius, one fragment of which was presented to Leo XIII by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the other by Professor (now Sir William) Ramsay.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09014a.htm   (418 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Capitoline Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Capitoline Hill CAPITOLINE HILL [Capitoline Hill] or Capitol, highest of the seven hills of ancient Rome, historic and religious center of the city.
Probably of Etruscan origin, she was worshiped in various parts of ancient Rome, most notably with Jupiter and Juno in the great Capitoline temple.
Il Vittoriano, situated on the slopes of the Capitoline Hill, this monument celebrates Italian independence and is the expression of the Risorgimento.
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 Capitoline Hill - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CAPITOLINE HILL [Capitoline Hill] or Capitol, highest of the seven hills of ancient Rome, historic and religious center of the city.
A flight of steps leads to the square on top of the hill; on one side of the square is the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the other, the Capitoline Museum.
In the center of the square is the ancient equestrian bronze statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-capitoli.html   (360 words)

  
 Legion XXIV - Constantine Colossus Gallery
The Musei Capitolini is the oldest museum in the world, founded in 1471 when Pope Sixus IV donated a number of bronze statues to the City of Rome.
The Museum is housed in two of the three Palazzo (palace) buildings comprising the Piazza del Campidoglio designed by Michelangelo in the 1530's to crown the Capitoline (Capitol) Hill.
A statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback escaped being melted down for its bronze content during the Middle Ages due to a mistaken identification of the figure as Constantine and is on display at the Musei Capitolini.
www.legionxxiv.org /constansgallery   (478 words)

  
 University Of Pennsylvania Museum Offers A Darwin Day | Huliq: Breaking News
“Penn Museum is delighted to be part of a growing, international chorus of classroom teachers, museums, universities and other organizations in celebrating the life and achievements of Charles Darwin,” said Dr. Jeremy Sabloff, Penn Museum Director.
The Museum is home to the world’s largest repository of high-quality casts of hominid fossils, which provide an important teaching tool for educators at Penn and around the world.
Next spring, the Museum focuses on the implications of evolution for human beings today and into the future, with the opening of a major new traveling exhibition, Surviving: The Body of Evidence.
www.huliq.com /6798/university-of-pennsylvania-museum-offers-a-darwin-day   (914 words)

  
 Capitoline Hill
This equestian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius is a recent copy of the ancient work which Michelangelo placed in the square he designed for the Capitoline Hill (Piazza del Campidoglio) in the 16th century.
The piazza is enclosed on three sides by the Capitoline Museum (which contains the original of the statue) and the Senatorium (Rome city hall).
The Palazzo Senatorio, or Rome city hall, is built on the foundation of the ancient Tabularium.
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 Incredible Journeys Photo Log: Rome Journal: The Glories of Capitoline Hill
Access to the Capitoline was only by means of a narrow path leading up the southern side of the hill.
Even at the height of Rome's power, the Capitoline was still considered the citadel of the city, and citizens could flee there in case the city's walls were breached by an invading army.
The Capitoline Wolf, the ancient symbol of the city of Rome, is probably one of the most immediately recognized statues of the ancient world.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/2005/10/rome-journal-glories-of-capitoline.html   (2328 words)

  
 Modern Arts At Metropolitan Museum | Huliq: Breaking News
Upon her death in 1946 the Museum was notified of Gertrude Stein's bequest of her famous portrait by Picasso (1906), his first painting to enter the Museum's collection.
Between 1950 and 1960 the Museum augmented its representation of early paintings by Picasso with three important gifts and, in 1953, with two purchases from the Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1929 in New York.
Strengthened by major works from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection in 1991, the Museum's representation of American 20th-century painting is comprehensive as is its representation of paintings by artists of the School of Paris.
www.huliq.com /6605/modern-arts-at-metropolitan-museum   (943 words)

  
 Campidoglio
The Capitoline hill (the Campidoglio or Monte Capitolino) is the smallest but historically the most important of Rome's seven hills.
The Capitoline Museum, which is featured in these pictures, adjoins the church.
The Museum is approached by a staircase headed by statues allegedly representing Castor and Pollox (see picture), leading to the square; both were designed by Michaelangelo and constructed from 1547 onwards.
www.csulb.edu /~jbyrd/rome/campi1.html   (195 words)

  
 Slow Travel Italy - Accessible Rome, Capitoline Museums. Mouth of Truth, Circus Maximus
The Capitoline Museums were the Smithsonian of the 14th through 18th centuries for Italians.
If you consider the Vatican Museums to be the "sacred" then the Capitoline became the "profane" when Pius V donated all pagan images from the Vatican to the Capitoline.
The Capitoline Museums, located on the Capitol (Campidoglio) at the Piazza del Campidoglio, consists of two buildings: the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo (new palace).
www.slowtrav.com /italy/accessible/rome/capitoline.htm   (1336 words)

  
 Cultural Walk in Ancient Rome
The Capitoline became the center of civic life early on because rock cliffs surrounded it, making it easy to defend.
The building on your left and the building on your right compose the Capitoline Museum, one of the world’s oldest public art collections The Palazzo Nuovo on your left, has busts of sixty-five of the ninety nine Roman Emperors …exhibited in order.
The Romans took refuge on the Capitoline and were awakened by Juno’s honking geese when the Gauls tried to sneak up the hill.
www.bellewstours.com /rome_read1.htm   (2900 words)

  
 The Capitoline
Thus the hill was entitled the Capitoline, or Capitol Hill in English (and Campidoglio in Italian).
In fact, the western side, known as the Tarpeian Rock, was a place off of which criminals were thrown to supplement crucifixion and burning at the stake in the Romans' repertoire of means of capital punishment.
In addition to being the most defensive point in the city, the Capitoline was the religious center for Rome, and extension, the entire Empire.
www.wilhelm-aerospace.org /Architecture/rome/capitoline/capitoline.html   (1095 words)

  
 Capitoline Museums - Museums International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The Capitoline Museums are, helpfully for those who tend to get themselves lost, situated on the Capitoline Hill, wedged between the unmissable Vittorio Emanuele Monument in Piazza Venezia, and The Forum.
There are three sections to the museums, well, really two, but a 'link' passage which I'll count as a third.
The Palazzo Nuovo and the Palazzo dei Conservatori make up the museums themselves and the Palazzo Senatorio is where the city government still manage (or don't as the case may be) Roman affairs.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /museums-international/capitoline-museums   (197 words)

  
 Rome: Museums of Rome -GD Italy.com
The Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums), founded in 1471 thanks to a donation of a group of bronze statues (Lupa [female Wolf], Spinario, Camillo and Testa di Costantino [Constantine's head]) to the Roman people by Pope Sisto IV, are the most ancient public collection in the world.
Museo Capitolino (Capitoline Museum), located inside Palazzo Nuovo (New Palace), is used for the exhibition of ancient sculptures.
The Vatican Museums are among the most important museums in the world.
www.gditaly.com /italy/latium/rome/museums_of_rome.php   (692 words)

  
 Capitoline Picture Gallery: The gallery at the Capitoline Museum on the Campidoglio is the first part of the Capitoline ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Capitoline Picture Gallery: The gallery at the Capitoline Museum on the Campidoglio is the first part of the Capitoline Museum
The gallery at the Capitoline Museum on the Campidoglio is the first part of the Capitoline Museums to reopen after a long closure for restorations.
The temporary entrance, until the rest of the museums are ready, is in the Portico del Vignola, next to the entrance to the Sala of the Protomoteca in Capitol Place.
www.mmdtkw.org /VCapMus.html   (201 words)

  
 ITALIA Regions of Italy - Latium
The region has always been the center of an intensive artistic life, which, from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, has had as cardinal point the presence of the Church (the Vatican City, seat of the papacy, is in the heart of Rome).
In Rome, the National Museum houses the most important archaeologic collections in the world, while the Capitoline Museum holds the oldest classic sculptures.
In the Museum of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Greek and Roman sculptures.
www.italiantourism.com /lazio.html   (328 words)

  
 STREETWISE® Maps - ARTWISE® Rome Museum Map
Above all stands the Vatican Museums with their fabulous masterpieces in palaces originally built for Renaissance popes such as Julius II, Innocent VIII and Sixtus IV.
Another mandatory stop includes The Capitoline Museum with splendid Greek and Roman sculptures in two palaces designed by Michelangelo: The Palazzo Nouvo and the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
Some of the art and archeological finds have resided on Capitoline Hill since the 15th century, making this one of the oldest museums in the world.
www.streetwisemaps.com /museum-map/rome-map.html   (821 words)

  
 Rome.info > Capitoline Museum Rome
Rome » Museums in Rome » Capitoline Museum
Capitoline Museums consist of two palaces, the entrance ticket (€7.80) is valid for both.
The smaller building of Capitoline Museums was opened to the public in 1734 by Pope Clement XII.
www.rome.info /museums/capitoline-museum   (212 words)

  
 rogueclassicism: Capitoline She Wolf
The icon of Rome's foundation, the Capitoline she-wolf, was crafted in the Middle Ages, not the Antiquities, according to a research into the statue’s bronze-casting technique.
The new dating of the Capitoline she-wolf was not revealed at the presentation of the restored statue in 2000.
The Capitoline Museum, where the bronze is displayed, claims the artwork traces back to 480-470 B.C. "Analysis and findings from the restoration were ignored," wrote La Regina.
www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00004857.html   (918 words)

  
 Museum Collection Guides
Art Across America: A Comprehensive Guide to American Art Museums and Exhibition Galleries This guide is designed to be a portable, readable, and useful source for planning excursions to the nearly 1,700 venues covered.
Although much smaller than the Official Museum Directory, this well-done guide would be a welcome addition to most reference and circulating collections as a source for locating art museums, especially those that are less well known and underappreciated but deserve greater attendance.
Included are such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and the Catacombs.
www.arts-technology.com /art/guides/museum-guidebooks.asp?page=museumGuides   (907 words)

  
 MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
The resignation last week of Theodore Stebbins, the Museum of Fine Arts' respected curator of 22 years, is just the latest in the talent drain that has afflicted the MFA since director Malcolm Rogers's violent reorganization of last June - the museum's equivalent of the French Revolution.
The fear is that expertise, scholarship, and respect may be going through the museum door along with the talent that has left, all in the name of corporate reorganization.
The museum accepts that its treatment of the Marbles was misguided: the cleaning was prompted by Lord Duveen, who was funding a purpose-built new classical gallery to house them and contemporary records suggest that he had bullied staff into attempting to whiten them by scraping.
www.museum-security.org /99/103.html   (6018 words)

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