Whether you’ve visited Rome’s Capitoline Hill before or this is the first time you’ve climbed its steps, you probably already know its history, that civilizations were established here long before the city was founded, and that temples lie beneath the buildings Michelangelo imagined when he redesigned the space on the hill. Making sense of […]
by C. P.
There’s some poetic justice in the new temporary exhibition set up at the Villa Caffarelli branch of the Capitoline Museums: the display, under the name “Domiziano Imperatore. Odio e amore” (“hate and love“), celebrates the assassinated emperor in the very place he helped rebuild: the cornerstones of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus are right below […]
Along with the exhibition on Raphael, it should have been the great art event of the first half of 2020, but then Covid hit and all museums closed down: that’s why the first ever showing of the “long lost” Torlonia Marbles has even greater significance for Rome at this time. This all-new display, called “The […]
by C. P.
