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  CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS

  Posted on F j, Y by flavia in

  This is the first public museum ever established. It all started in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of ancient Roman bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome. These statues were positioned on Capitoline Hill. Among them the most famous Shewolf, and the statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius, which […]

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