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The Ludovisi Gaul (also Galatian Suicide, Suicide of a Gaul, or more accurately Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife) in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome is an oversized Docimaean marble statue group of a standing naked male figure in the act of stabbing himself in the neck with a short sword while supporting a dying woman on his left arm. The two figures are Gauls (or Galatians), a Celtic people of Asia Minor (not France!), and are generally considered to have been part of the same group as the Dying Gaul, which is now in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. (The Kneeling Youthful Gaul in the Louvre, and others, might have been part of a much larger group originally erected in Pergamon.)
These sculptures are Roman copies of the original Greek bronzes by Epigonos originally commissioned by King Attaus I to celebrate his victory over the Gauls in 240 BC. They are identified as Gauls by the clothes, wavy hair, mustache, the weapons on the base, and the custom of Galatian chieftains to bring wives to the battle. The location of their discovery supported the notion that the marble sculptures were made for Julius Caesar in memory of his victory over the Gauls, this time the Celtic people of the West (France / Asterix). However, current thinking places the marble works a century or so after the death of Caesar.
The sculpture was lightly restored using Carrara marble. The only major new parts are the four hands and lower arms, as well as parts of the fluttering cloak.
The Palazzo Altemps in Rome is part of the Museo Nazionale Romano (National Roman Museums) and is used to display around 150 quality sculptures from antiquity. Highlights of the museum include the Altemps, Boncompagni Ludivisi, and Mattei collections such as the Ludovisi Gaul, the Ludovisi Throne, a seated Ares, exceptional sarcophagi, colossal heads, and magnificent further sculptures from antiquity that were restored to various degrees, especially in the baroque period. The museum is absolutely worth visiting and included in combination tickets with the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.
Ostiense | Via Ostiense
The Centrale Montemartini houses about 400 Roman statues, already exhibited at the Capitoline Museums or recovered from the rich municipal deposits, along with epigraphs and mosaics, in an extraordinary setting of industrial archeology.
La cantante estadounidense de origen italiana Lady Gaga fue la invitada especial del Euroorgullo gay 2011 el 11 de junio de 2011 en Roma.
La scalinata di travertino che da piazza Trinità dei Monti scende a piazza di Spagna, una delle scenografie più pittoresche della Roma del '700, è movimentata ogni giorno da una folla di turisti; ai suoi piedi la Barcaccia, la fontana di Pietro bernini, padre del più celebre Gian Lorenzo, ed il Keats-Shelley Memorial House, l'appartamento mmuseo che raccoglie libri e documenti dei due grandi poeti inglesi, morti in Italia.
La fontana della Barcaccia
è al centro della piazza e fu realizzata nel 1629 da Piero Bernini con decorazioni del figlio, il più celebre Gian Lorenzo. l'origine della sua forma, assimmetrica semisommersa e leggermente sotto il livello del terreno, è leggendaria: papa Urbano VIII sarebbe rimasto impressionat da una barca arenatasi sulla piazza in seguito ad una piena del Tevere che volle farne restare memoria con la foggia della fontana e che, in seguito, fu soprannominata dai romani la Barcaccia.