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Maria Cristina Misiti, director of the National Institute of Graphics, had the idea to turn the building into a museum to help visitors learn more about the history of Rome and its inhabitants. [5] The Palazzo Poli houses the institute's collection of copper engraving plates dated from the sixteenth century to the present.
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The murale of Skanderbeg in Piazza Scanderbeg in Rome, Italy. Palazzo Scanderbeg or Palazzetto Scanderbeg [1] is a Roman palazzo, located on the Piazza Scanderbeg (Num. 117) near the Trevi Fountain. It takes its name from its fifteenth-century host, the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg.
Mills House is a historic home located at Rome in Oneida County, New York. It is an eclectic High Victorian Gothic style brick residence built in 1877. It has a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, gable-roofed main block and hip-roofed, square, brick kitchen wing. It features a corner tower with pyramidal roof. [2]
Trevi is the 2nd rione of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. II, located in Municipio I.The origin of its name is not clear, but the most accepted theory is that it comes from the Latin trivium (meaning 'three streets'), because there were three streets all leading to the current Piazza dei Crociferi, a square next to the modern Trevi square.
Rome Art-Lover: Palazzo Barberini; Italian army ends museum stand-off, BBC News, Friday, 13 October 2006; Google Maps. The complex constituting the Palazzo Barberini is in the center, set back from the road on all sides, and askew. On the lower side of the image are the start of the Quirinal Palace gardens.
The sculptural portrayal of a laywoman and the support of the cardinal's ecclesiastical coat of arms by the sculptures of two barechested women make the church unique among churches in Rome. Until the 1820s, Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi was known as the "Pontifical Parish" ( Parrocchia Pontificia ). [ 9 ]
Oceanus (or Neptune) of the Trevi Fountain. Pietro Bracci (June 16, 1700 [1] –1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of Oceanus at the center of Rome's Trevi Fountain, based on a plaster modello by Giovanni Battista Maini. [1]