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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 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 ...
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.
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.
The orb and the other fragments are now held in the Capitoline Museum, and displayed in the Exhedra of Marcus Aurelius, a glass pavilion constructed in the 1990s to house the original gilt-bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius after it was restored (with its place in the Piazza del Campidoglio taken by a replica), along with a gilt-bronze ...
Pope Sixtus V had the statue moved to the Piazza San Marco, (in Rome) in 1588, and then to the piazza del Campidoglio in 1592, where it decorates a fountain designed by Giacomo della Porta on a wall of the Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, facing the Palazzo dei Conservatori. Part of the face, the right foot, and the left hand holding a ...
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.
On the occasion of the obelisk's relocation, the globe was presented to the city by Sixtus V. It was placed first on the Marforio fountain, then in 1692 on the balustrade of the Piazza del Campidoglio. In 1848 it was brought into the Palazzo dei Conservatori. [8]
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