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  2. Capitoline Museums - Wikipedia

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    The Capitoline Museums (Italian: Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing on the central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years.

  3. Piazza del Campidoglio - Wikipedia

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    The Capitoline Wolf sculpture was housed in 1471 in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. [11] The 15th-century Palazzo dei Conservatori, at the Capitoline Museums, was almost demolished in 1540 by Michelangelo, but the fifteenth-century design was documented in the drawings by the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck made between 1536 and 1538. He ...

  4. Conservatore of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Il Palazzo dei Conservatori e il Palazzo Nuovo in Campidoglio: momenti di storia urbana di Roma, edited by M. Tittoni (1996): 19-27. Daniela Sinisi, Carmen Genovese, Pro Ornatu et Publica Utilitate. L'attività della Congregazione cardinalizia super viis, pontibus et fontibus nella Roma di fine '500 , Gangemi Editore S.p.A., 2011.

  5. Capitoline Hill - Wikipedia

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    Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façades of Palazzo dei Conservatori (left) and Palazzo Nuovo. The existing design of the Piazza del Campidoglio and the surrounding palazzi was created by Renaissance artist and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536–1546.

  6. Hercules of the Forum Boarium - Wikipedia

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    The temple was converted into a church. [4] This statue of Hercules was moved to the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio in 1510 [ 5 ] The statue of Hercules Aemilianus is believed to have been commissioned by either Aemilius Paullus, who dedicated a tomb to Hercules, or by Scipio Aemilianus. [ 2 ]

  7. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia

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    The original statue in the Palazzo dei Conservatori On the night of 29 November 1849, at the inception of the revolutionary Roman Republic , a mass procession set up the red–white–green tricolore (now the flag of Italy , then a new and highly "subversive" flag) in the hands of the mounted Marcus Aurelius.

  8. Bronze colossus of Constantine - Wikipedia

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    The statue may have been originally erected at the Lateran Palace, then known as the "Domus Faustae" or "House of Fausta" after Constantine's second wife Fausta.By the 1320s, a head and hand were displayed between the church of St John Lateran and the Lateran Palace, near the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which was then also thought to depict Constantine.

  9. Giacomo della Porta - Wikipedia

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    The large window in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, the windows and door surround of the Palazzo Senatorio, and the low wall of the Cordonata—whose slope he lowered to extend directly into the Piazza del Campidoglio—are also examples of Della Porta's intricate designs. [1] [4]