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Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD [1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand. [2] It is housed in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy (formerly in the Capitoline Museums). [1]
Francesco established there the Arazzia Barberini or Barberini Tapestry works in 1627 which remained open until 1679. [5] In February 1634, a revised version of Il Sant'Alessio, was performed at the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane, the Cardinal's private opera theater in the Palazzo. [6] The Cardinal had written the libretto and Stefano Landi the ...
Piazza Barberini in 2011. In 1935 the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA) bought the complex bounded by Piazza Barberini, Via Vittorio Veneto, Via dei Cappuccini (formerly Via Ferrea) and Via della Purificazione; but then had to fend off a purchase by the Giornale d’Italia, backed by the minister for the Press and Propaganda. [5]
STORY: Archeologists have discovered beautifully preserved bronze statues Location: San Casciano Dei Bagni, Italydating back to ancient Roman times in Tuscan thermal baths[Jacopo Tabolli ...
Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, [1] near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's ...
The life-size [1] ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. A faun is the Roman equivalent of a Greek satyr .
Location Palazzo Barberini , Rome The Vestal Virgin Tuccia ( Italian : La Vestale Tuccia ) or Veiled Woman ( Italian : La Velata ) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini , a Venetian Rococo sculptor known for his illusory depictions of female allegorical figures covered with veils that reveal the fine details of the forms ...
The Statue of Carlo Barberini was a large statue of the brother of Pope Urban VIII, Carlo Barberini, erected in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, following his death in 1630. The statue made use of an existing antique statue of Julius Caesar .