Courtyard of Palazzo dei Conservatori
The Capitoline Museums are Rome’s* oldest public museum. The museum is housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo; they are connected by an underground passage.
In the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori are important fragments of architectural sculptures from ancient Rome.
Michelangelo's redesigned the entrance of the Palazzo dei Conservatori to enter into this courtyard. He had the surviving fragments of the Colossus of Constantine (313-324 AD) moved here from the Basilica of Maxentius. They are along one wall (the right in this image) of the courtyard
In the middle of the centre wall here is a statue of the goddess Roma ('Roma Cesi'; circa 117-138 AD). Along the left wall are relief fragments from the Temple of the Hadrian (circa 145 AD).
Capitoline Museum, Rome; July 2019
(An in-phone panorama capture with a Samsung Note 8.)
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* The Vatican is not part of Rome or Italy.
Courtyard of Palazzo dei Conservatori
The Capitoline Museums are Rome’s* oldest public museum. The museum is housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo; they are connected by an underground passage.
In the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori are important fragments of architectural sculptures from ancient Rome.
Michelangelo's redesigned the entrance of the Palazzo dei Conservatori to enter into this courtyard. He had the surviving fragments of the Colossus of Constantine (313-324 AD) moved here from the Basilica of Maxentius. They are along one wall (the right in this image) of the courtyard
In the middle of the centre wall here is a statue of the goddess Roma ('Roma Cesi'; circa 117-138 AD). Along the left wall are relief fragments from the Temple of the Hadrian (circa 145 AD).
Capitoline Museum, Rome; July 2019
(An in-phone panorama capture with a Samsung Note 8.)
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* The Vatican is not part of Rome or Italy.