Located on the Capitoline Hills in Rome, Capitoline Museums is composed of three buildings surrounding a trapezoidal piazza and its construction dates back to the year 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV founded it by lacing some rare bronze artifacts. From then on, Capitoline Museums has gone on to house a large number of ancient sculptures and artifacts, mostly in marble; medieval and renaissance paintings, jewelry and coins and others. The three buildings of the Capitoline Museums are namely -
- Palazzo Senatorio of the 12th Century is the one, which mostly houses ancient statues from the Roman period.
- Palazzo dei Conservatori is the one which was built in the 16th century and houses, a large collection of Roman, Greek as well as Egyptian sculptures; the famous statue of the she wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, depicting the myth of the formation of Rome; and has walls with elaborate fresco paintings, stuccos and ceilings and doors intricately carved; and also numerous coins and medals and jewelry and others and paintings depicting applied art.
- Palazzo Nuovo, which was built in the 17th Century, houses several statues and inscriptions, sarcophagi and mosaics. There are world renowned statues such as the 'Dying Gaul' and 'Cupid and Psyche'; Capitoline Venus created by Praxiteles in the 4th Century BC.
These apart, Capitoline Museums also houses statue of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and about sixty four portraits of Roman Emperors, around eighty of Greek and Roman philosophers and more.
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