Altemps Palace and Ludovisi's Collection

In the 17th december 1997, a double event has been celebrated in Rome: the end of the works of repair of Palazzo Altemps, lasted fifteen years, a renaissance palace in the center of Rome, and the reopening to the public of the beautifull collection Ludovisi. A legendary collection this of the Boncompagni Ludovisi princes, families of popes and cardinals who keep in the rooms and gardens of their beautifull roman house a multitude of ancient statues; a crowd of Gods, fauns, satyrs, ninphes, athletes and warrios.
Works that for ages have represented a typical example of the ancient beauty, copied with personal reconstructions and audacious repairs, by greats artists, as Bernini.
In the 1901 Boncompagni princes putted up to sale their collection. Italian State bought only 96 of the 460 sculptures, so the collection was dispersed and the statues were separated in differents museums.
After arranging temporarily the statues in the Bath Museum, closed from a decade, now , at last, works have found, in Altemps Palace, a seat worthy of their rank.
Statues have been located according to a precise standard: that is restoring scenes of the renaissance and baroque Rome which was adorned by those marble groups.
They tried to stick closely to the sixteenth- century taste, integrating the statues where the Altemps had their collection.

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Altemps Palace and Ludovisi's Collection
Piazza S. Apollinare, 484
00178 Roma

Tel. +39685301758

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