ROME

Museums

Sistine Chapel (Vatican)	Borghese Gallery (via Pinciana)	National Gallery of Ancient Art
Capitoline Museums (Piazza del Campidoglio)	Vatican Museums (viale Vaticano)

Capitoline Museums (Piazza del Campidoglio)
The Capitoline Museums are located in the Palace of the Conservators, built by Giacomo Della Porta according to the design of Michaelangelo in the second half of the fifteenth century, and in the New Palace, built by Girolamo Rainaldi in the seventeenth century (in front of the the Palace of the Conservators).
In the Museum of the Palace of the Conservators are rows of rooms with works of great interest, including the Gallery of the Lamiani Orchards, with the Esquilina Venus; the room of the Magistrates, with statues from the fourth century; the Spinario, a bronze of the first century B.C.; the Wolf of the Campidoglio, an Etruscan bronze of the sixth century B.C. In the same building one finds the Capitoline Art Gallery, containing many paintings.
The New Palace, northeast of the piazza of the Campidoglio, has a collection of many antique sculptures, including the so-called Capitoline Aphrodite, a Roman copy of a Hellenic statue, the Morente Galatea, copy of a work from the school of Pergamo of the third century B.C.; the Faun, a statue in red marble. Interesting also is the Room of the Emperors, with 65 busts representing famous people.