Eternal Rome, Italy’s capital
The Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archeological museums housed in three palazzi on Piazza del Campidoglio, on Capitoline Hill in Rome. The creation of these Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome. This is a group of statues in the Palazzo Nuovo, (“New Palace”), constructed in 1603, finished in 1654, and opened to the public in 1734.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Nov 01, 1994