The Capitoline Museums in Rome have inaugurated an exhibition with 140 works of Renaissance collection promoted by Pope Paul III, from the Farnese family. This was one of the most influential families in Rome, politically, socially and culturally.
CLAUDIO PARISE
Archaeologist
It is a very prestigious collection that Paul III began to enrich first, but then especially his grandsons Alexander, also the pope's namesake, and Odoacre, throughout the 17th century. And it is a collection that consists not only of works of antiquity, so marble statues, coins, gems, but especially paintings and drawings that were entrusted specifically to the artists of the time.
The exhibition is dedicated to the pontiff's legacy. Throughout the exhibition there are reproductions of maps of the time and inscriptions of some of the most famous openings and inaugurations, such as, for example, the remodeling of Piazza del Campidoglio commissioned to the artist Michelangelo.
The exhibition, on view through May 18, 2025 at the Villa Caffarelli, also explores the transformation of the Italian capital for the Jubilee of 1550, prompted by Pope Paul III Farnese after the sack of Rome in 1527.
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