Capitoline Museums

Piazza del Campidoglio 1, Rome

Description:

Founded in 1471, works in the Capitoline Museum form one of the world’s first public collections.  Although many of Rome’s treasures  have found their way to the Vatican Museum, the Capitoline does boast a very impressive collection of ancient sculpture as well as some 16^th and 17^th century paintings by the most famous artists of the era.

Highlights:

Sculpture:

The Dying Gaul

An equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Satyr Resting

Boy Extracting a Thorn

Fragments of the Colossus of Constantine

Capitoline Wolf

Paintings:

Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist and Gypsy Fortune-Teller

Rubens’ Romulus and Remus Fed by the Wolf

Titian’s Baptism of Christ

Works by Tintoretto and Veronese

Opening Hours:

Tuesday – Saturday, 9:00 am- 8:00 pm

Closed Monday

Also closed January 1, May 1 and  December 25

Costs:

Adults: 6:50 Euro