Tag Archives: Roman art
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TRAJAN’S MARKETS AND IMPERIAL FORA
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CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inThis is an extraordinary example of industrial archaeology combined with Roman art. The Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre was the first public power plant built in Rome in 1912. It was provided with groups of diesel motors and a turbo steam alternator by the Tosi firm. At the beginning it would produce 7000 kW of power, later increased […]
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VILLA GIULIA
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inVilla Giulia is a Renaissance villa that houses the National Etruscan Museum, the world’s most important collection of Etruscan art and artifacts. Best known pieces include: the terra cotta Sarcophagus of the Spouses, the Etruscan-Phoenician Pyrgi Tablets, the Apollo of Veii, the Cista Ficoroni, the Euphronios Crater, the Chigi Olpe. A large amount of Greek vases of […]
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CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inThis is the first public museum ever established. It all started in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of ancient Roman bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome. These statues were positioned on Capitoline Hill. Among them the most famous Shewolf, and the statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius, which […]
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PALAZZO MASSIMO
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inThis is part of the Roman National Archaeological Museum, one of the world’s leading museums of Ancient Art. On ground level and first floor it houses a prestigious collection of important statues such as the Discobolus Lancellotti (Discus Thrower), the Augustus via Labicana, the bronze Boxer, the General from Tivoli, the Dying Niobide (V BC), […]
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