In 1734, almost 60 years before the Louvre made its debut in Paris, the Museo Capitolino (Capitoline Museum) opened in Rome. Established under Pope Clement XII, it was the first public art museum of ...

A man visits the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy, May 18, 2021. The museums officially opened to the public in 1734 during the government of Clemente XII. Its collections are closely linked to the ...

A tourist visits the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy, Aug. 3, 2025. Most of the museums and state archaeological sites across Italy opened their doors for free on Sunday as part of the monthly ...

How the Capitoline came to be — and how it managed to beat the Louvre by more than half a century — is a question being asked and answered by UC Santa Barbara’s Carole Paul. She recently received a ...

A missing finger from a giant statue of the Roman emperor Constantine has been reunited with the hand it came from, roughly 550 years after being separated. The fragment was sent by the Louvre Museum ...

The cover-up has been ridiculed by some politicians and social media users. — -- Nude statues in Rome's Capitoline Museums were covered up during a recent visit by the president of Iran, and the ...

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A 1:1 facsimile of the statue of Constantine shows how modern technology can help recreate the past, and offers new ideas for scholarship. By Elisabetta Povoledo The art critics of The Times select ...