The Palazzo dei Conservatori was the seat of the city’s magistrates during the late Middle Age. Its frescroed halls are still used occasionally for political meetings and the ground floor houses the municipal registry office.. The palazzo was built by Giacomo della Porta who carried out Michelangelo’s design for the pizza del Compidoglio in the mid 16C.

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The
Capitoline
Museum
Palazzo Conservatori
Rome

2. Piazza del Campidoglio
The Capitoline Museum is situated in the Piazza del Campidolglio.
The Museum

3. Musei Capitolini

4. Mosaic 3C AD
Mosaic was very popular
in Roman times. It was
mainly used for building
decorations.
“The earliest example of
Roman mosaic flooring
date to the late Republican
period of 2C BC and are
housed in Delos Greece.”
Wikipedia.
Mosaic

5. Mosaic 235 AD

6. Mosaic 2C AD

7. Mosaic 2C AD Detail

8. Mosaic 2C AD Detail

9. Lion Attacking a Horse 325-300 BC
Greco-Roman
Sculpture

10. Lion Attacking a Horse 325-300 BC

11. Artemis 4C BC

12. Amazon 5C BC

13. Fighting Hercules 4C BC

14. Fountain Horn 4C BC

15. Capitoline Venus
4C BC

16. Statue of Marsyas. 3C BC

17. Statue of Marsyas. 3C BC

18. Esquiline Venus 1C BC

19. Dog 1C BC – 4AD

20. Severan Woman 200 BC

21. The Dying Galatian 230 BC

22. Wounded Warrior 1C AD
Only the torso of the remarkable
and very famous statute is
ancient and it seems to be an
excellent remaking of the
Discobolus that the Greek
sculptor Myron made by in 460
BC

23. Roman Caryatid 43 BC

24. Goddess 1C AD

25. Spinario 3C BC
Boy with Thorn also called Fedele
or Spinario, original was Hellenistic
3C BC. There is a marble version
at the Uffizi Gallery Florence. 16C
bronze version of the statue is now
held in the Louvre. Rijksmuseum
has a small bronze version by
Pieter Claesz in 1628. There is a
version called the Thorn-Piller now
in the British Museum.

26. A magnificent bronze statue of
extraordinary expressive force.
Although identified as the first
Roman consult of Brutus, but without
foundation. It has features referable
to Greek portrait models of poets and
philosophers. The statue was re-
dated to 4C BC. It is one of the most
precious artefact of the museum.
Roman
Capitoline Brutus 4C-3C BC

27. Barium Hercules 4C-142 BC

28. Marcus Aurelius 175 AD

29. Marcus Aurelius 175 AD

30. Marcus Aurelius 175 AD
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (Detail Horse’s Head). 175 AD Bronze, Roman. 10 Dec 2019.

31. Colossus of Constantine
312 AD
A reconstruction of the seat
Colossus of Constantine.

32. Colossus of Constantine 312 AD

33. Colossus of Constantine 306 AD

34. Capitoline She-Wolf 11C
Italian

35. Capitoline She-Wolf 11C
According to Roman legends. Rome was found by two twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were
abandoned by the order of the king. The two babies were bought up by a she-wolf.

36. Bernini 1630
The statue depicts the
moment when Medusa was
looking into an imaginary
mirror and seeing her own
reflection with horror and
anguish. Right in front of our
eyes, Bernini transformed
Medusa into this marble bust.

37. Horacii & Curiatii 1612 Fresco
Frescoe of Conservatori

38. Horacii & Curiatii Fresco 1612

39. Hannabal in Italy Fresco 1508

40. Paintings
Caravaggio 1594

41. Caravaggio 1594
There is another similar painting lin
the Louvre that is slight different but
painted about 2 years later (see
above).

42. The Caravaggio’s paintings are by
far the most prestigious paintings in
the museum’s collections.
Caravaggio 1602
I can not imagine why anyone
would paint a saint in this way. In
the Bible, St John the Baptist was a
rather rugged man living in the
wilderness. The naked boy in the
painting convey a sense of
tenderness if not innocent.

43. Cesari 1600
Giuseppe Cesari came from a family
of artists. He was the most
Italianized Spanish artist. He was
also a sculptor, architect, writer, poet
and a scholar. He was also the
painter of the frescoes in the the
Palazzo dei Conservatori, which is
part of the Musei Capitolini.

44. Carpi
Girolamo da Carpi moved to Bologna when
he was 20. He is considered as an early
painter of the Bolognese School in the Late
Renaissance.

45. Reni 1625
Guido Reni is a classical painter and an
important member of the Bolognese school.

46. Bubens 1615

47. Van Dyck 1627
Van Dyck was a Flemish painter
once work for Rubens. He was
known for his double portraits.
He found his fame and fortune in
England, a royal portrait painter
for the aristocrats. This is an
example of his double portrait.

48. Velazqeuz 1630
Velazqeuz was one of the greatest
painter of all time. The above is one
of his more well-known self portrait.
He was also a very decent man.

49. Guercino 1623
This painting was painted for Saint Peter’s
Basilica, for a chapel dedicated to the Saint
Petronilla and containing her relics. The
painter was Guercino, also known as Giovanni
Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666).
The painting is divided into two scenes. The
bottom scene depicts the burial of the saint,
surrounded by gravediggers and the
congregation, in this world.
The upper part of the painting depicts Christ
welcoming the arrival of the saint into heaven.
The saint was dressed in a richly decorated
garment.

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The
End
Music – Together Again. Ernesto Cortazar
Musei Capitolini is housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. 10 Dec 2019.

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