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The building
was built over continuing periods between the fifteenth
and seventeenth centuries through the unification of
several medieval houses built in the area close to a
fortified system that divided the Orsini property
from that of the Colonnas.
It had
various owners including Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps
and his nephew Giovanni Angelo.
Recent
restoration work supervised by the Ministry of Cultural
Heritage has brought the building back to its sixteenth
century style, by eliminating modifications and superfetations
which had altered its appearance.
It houses
units together in this exhibition centre according to
a criterion that allows visitors to perceive both the
formal aspects and the taste of collectors of the time.
The famous
BoncompagniLudovisi collection is particularly
valuable. Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi collected a considerable
amount of valuable antique marble that he kept in his
property on the Colle Quirinale.
The
collection included about 450 world renowned
sculptures that decorated the paths and
gardens of the Villa.
The
sculptures were then restored and missing parts
were reinstated by some of the most important sculptors
of the time like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro
Algardi, Ippolito Buzzi.
Part
of the collection was lost when the Villa was
destroyed at the end of the nineteenth century in order
to allow the construction of the present-day Ludovisi
district.
The state
managed to acquire 104 sculptures that the State
managed to acquire which are now exhibited in the
rooms of the Palazzo, among these, one can admire
the group of the suicidal Gaul with his wife, Orestes
and Electra, Ares and the head of Juno,
and the famous Greek original from the V century
BC and the so-called "Trono Ludovisi" from excavations
carried out in the area.
The collection
of Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, which is displayed
with the criteria the rich furnishings of the Palace,
originally consisted of 120 sculptures from
the Greek and Roman eras.
Currently
15 sculptures are kept, four of which can be
seen under the arches of the northern portico.
Works relating
to the Mattei collection, which were assembled
by the family in order to decorate Villa Celirnontana,
and which were previously housed in the Museum of
the Baths of Diocletian are now exhibited in
the porticos of the courtyard and in the rooms
on the first floor.
Another important
unit is that of the Del Drago Collection dating
back to XVII century, it was initially housed
in the building in Via Quattro Fontane.
ln Palazzo
Altemps one can also admire a substantial core of
the Egyptian collection belonging to the Roman
National Museum: in particular the materials from
the Sanctuary of Isis and Sera pis in Campo Marzio
and the finds from the excavation of the Syriac
sanctuary of the Janiculum. (it)
Information and Addresses
Address
Piazza di S. Apollinare, 44
Visiting
Hours Every day from 9.00 am to 7-45 pm Closed Monday,
Dec. 25,Jan.1
Telephone
06 6833759; Bookings 06 39967700
Price € 7,00;
concessions € 3,50; cumulative ticket for branches of
Museo Nazionale
Romano valid for three days
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