Originally posted 2020-06-03 20:37:18. The first of the rooms that look towards the city is called “Sala dei Trionfi” because in 1569 some frescoes were commissioned inside, to the painters Michele Alberti and Iacopo Rocchetti (both pupils of Daniele da Volterra ). The frieze represents the triumph of the Roman…

Originally posted 2020-06-03 20:03:29. This room, on whose walls are affixed the Fasti consulares (from 483 to 19 BC) and those triumphales (from 753 to 19 BC), found in the Roman Forum in the fifteenth century (and adorning the Parthian arch of Augustus in 19 BC), was anciently a loggia…

Originally posted 2020-06-03 19:39:33. The room’s pictorial decorations date back to the mid-XVI century, during the papacy of Pope Paul III The frieze consists of small panels, with playful scenes set against a background of real or imaginary landscapes, alternating with military trophies and floral and fruit triumphs. The two…

Originally posted 2020-06-03 10:42:02. The hall of Palazzo Nuovo is certainly the most monumental environment of the entire Capitoline museum complex. The great central hall has preserved its original wall decorations and its XVI century gilded wood coffered ceiling. In the centre we can see a row of statues in…