Capitoline Museums are a complex of archaeological, art, city history and interior exhibitions located on the Capitol. The museum presents a rich collection of antique sculptures, e.g. Capitoline Wolf, Dying Gal, Cupid and Psyche, Resting Faun, Boy pulling a thorn from his foot, Capitoline Brutus, Medusa, young Hercules, statue of Marcus Aurelius, remains of the statue of Constantine the Great from Maxentius Basilica. The collection also includes ancient ceramics, epigraphic monuments, sarcophagi and mosaics. In the museum we can see paintings of Titian, Rubens, van Dyck, Tintoretto, Dosso Dossi, Caravaggio, Guercino and the Caracci brothers.
The complex consists of the Palace of Conservators and the New Palace, which are connected by an underground corridor with a viewing terrace to the Roman Forum and the Senators' Palace. It is the oldest public museum in the world. The origins of the museum's creation date back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of bronze sculptures to the Roman people.
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