http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk old town apartments in rome city eu apartments for rent rome Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:05:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ROOM I: contains a selection of the most important articles found on the Quirinale and on the Esquiline at the ti me of the construction of new buildings there during the second half of the nineteenth century. There is also material from the Esquiline necro­polis in ROOM Il together with ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/antiquarium-comunale/ The Lapidaria Gallery which in reached from the ground floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, was excavated during the years 1939-40 to join up the three Palazzi Capitolini. It contains Greek, Roman Byzantine, Medieval and Modern inscriptions. http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/lapidaria-gallery/ The CAPITOLINE PICTURE GALLERY consists essentially of pictures from the Sacchetti and Pio Collections. works by Italian and foreign painters from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The paintings in ROOM I are largely from the Emilian school, with a Holy Family by Dosso Dossi, four works by Garofalo (Madonna with ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/capitoline-picture-gallery/ The first three rooms of this museum contain fragments of statues, sarcophagi and urns etc. In the centre of ROOM IV is the elegant statue of Polymnia, a copy of an Hellenistic work from the second century B.C., in ROOM V it is worth noting the votive relief showing Asclepius, ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/the-new-museum/ This starts with tlie three HALLS OF MODERN POMPS with the lists of magistrates of the city from 1640 onwards and a collection of herms and busts. After these rooms, the Gallery of Orti Lamiani contains the sculptures found in the Lamiani gardens on the Esquiline. Of particular interest are ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/the-museum-of-palazzo-dei-conservatori/ The LITTLE ENTRANCE COURT contains the grandiose remains of the statue of Costanti ne (head, arm, leg, hand and feet); the colossal acrolith was in the apse of the Basilica of Constantine. In the opposite PORTICO is the head of Costantius II, another colossal statue. On the left hand walls ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/the-palazzo-dei-conservatori/ In the wall of the COURT opposite the entrance there is a tablet placed there in 1734 to commemorate the setting up of the Museum. Beneath this and above the fountain reclines the colossal statue of Oceano from the first century B.C. popularly called Marforio, one of the talking statues ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/capitoline-museum/ The Museo Nazionale Romano is housed in the Baths which Diocletian had built between the last years of the third century and the beginning of the fourth century A.C. (the dedicatory inscription dated 306 A.C. is conserved in a fragmentary state in the Museum). The building of the baths, the ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/national-museum-of-rome/ (Open: from 9 to an hour before sunset, closed Sunday afternoons). The largest amphitheater ever built in Rome and symbol for Romanism was the work of the Flavian emperors and was therefore called Amphiteatrum Flavium. The name Colosseum first come to be used in the Middle Ages and can be ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/colosseum/ (Via dei Fori Imperiali. open: weekdays and holidays 9-13. from Spring to Autumn 9-19, closed Mondays). Situated in a valley between the Palatine, the Capitoline and the Esquiline hills, the area was originally a mos: inhospitable zone, swampy and unhealthy, until surprisingly modern reclama­tion work was carried out by the ... http://www.apartmentsinrome.co.uk/rome-travel-guide/roman-forum/