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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.
The Palazzo dei Conservatori, named after the conservatori. A Conservatore of Rome (Italian: Conservatore di Roma) [a] was one of three magistrates in medieval Rome, dividing power on the model of the ancient Roman consuls.
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.
Lo Spinario (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini).. Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.
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 redesigned the Palazzo dei Conservatori, removing all the previous structures and matching ...
The museum also holds fragments from an acrolithic Colossus of Constantine, an even larger marble statue once erected in the Basilica of Maxentius near the Forum Romanum, which are displayed in the courtyard of the museum's Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline Hill.
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.
Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome: Preceded by: Busts of Paolo Giordano and Isabella Orsini: Followed by: Bust of King Charles I (Bernini) The Statue of Urban VIII is a ...