Wednesday, October 29, 2008

CHIARAMONTI MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF POPES CLEMENT,GREGORIAN MUSEUM, ANTIQUARIUM ROMANUM, GALLERY OF THE CANDELABRA

It was main founded by the main peoples those who were lived in that ancient periods. It was founded by Pope Pius VII (Chiaramonti) and includes: the Corridoio (Corridor), the Galleria Lapidaria and the Braccio Nuovo (New Side). In the Corridor, divide into 60 sections, is an interminable series of statues, busts, sarcofhagi, reliefs, etc: about 800 Greek-Roman works. In the Galleria Lapidaria there are over 5000 pagan and Christian inscriptions. In the Braccio Nuovo, the Statue of Augustus of Prima Porta, the Group of the Nile and the Doriforos, deserve particular attention.

It is mainly called as the palazzetto and later.In the Palazzetto of Belvedere the visitor finds Greek and Roman sculptures like the Apollo Belvedere (a Roman copy from the original Greek sculpture, 130-140 A.D.), the famous group of Laocoön by Agesander, Polydorus and Athanodorus, the statue of Hermes (copied during Hadrian's reign from an original Greek bronze of 4th century B.C.), the colossal statue of Antinous (photo), and moreover the Canova's Cabinet, the Gallery of Statues, the Room of the Animals, etc.

It is one of the most famous museum among all it is called as the Etruscan Museum was founded by Gregory XIV in 1837 to house the works coming from the excavations carried out in southern Etruria. It was later enriched with further acquisitions and donations, and became one of the most important for Etruscan art. it is main features of it

It was mainly divided into three small rooms, the Antiquarium houses mainly ancient Roman objects and works of the minor arts. These are all the familiar things

The mini story of that was Once a loggia, the gallery was enclosed during the pontificate of Pius VI. Arches supported by columns and pillars were used to divide the space, which was then hung with candelabra, one for each arch: hence the name of the gallery. This are all the main features of that museum in ancient periods.

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