Begun after
1471 for Girolamo Riario, who married Caterina Sforza in 1477
Continued
in the years 1511/23 for Cardinal Francesco Soderini from Volterra
Purchased
in 1568 by Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps who had it completed and renewed by Martino Longhi the Elder (1534/91)
Cardinal
Marco Sittico Altemps was the nephew of Pius IV Medici (1559/65) and the father
of poor Robert Altemps who was beheaded only twenty years old for adultery in
1586 under Sixtus V Peretti (1585/90)
Embossing
on the corners by Giacomo Della Porta
(1533/1602)
The
construction phases of the building went on for over a century and a half in
total
Restored in
1837 by Virginio Vespignani (1808/82) and in
1949 Antonio Muñoz (1884/1960)
The Altemps
family was originally from Tyrol and the original name was Sittich von
Hohenems transformed in Sittico Altemps when they settled in early 1500s,
first in Milan, where they became relatives of the Milanese Medici, and later
in Rome
National Roman Museum
It is made
out of five different museums in five different locations. The other
four are Palazzo
Massimo, Crypta Balbi, Museo
delle Terme and Museo del Palatino
Collections assembled in this museum:
ALTEMPS
COLLECTION
LUDOVISI
BONCOMPAGNI COLLECTION
MATTEI
COLLECTION from Villa
Celimontana
EGYPTIAN
COLLECTION OF THE MUSEO NAZIONALE ROMANO
DEL DRAGO
COLLECTION
The
majority of the statues in this museum have been restored and remodeled mainly
in the seventeenth century
Maybe by
Antonio Giamberti aka Antonio da Sangallo the Elder
(about 1460/1534) and Baldassarre Peruzzi
(1481/1536), but finished by Martino Longhi the Elder
(1534/91)
Four
statues of the second century AD from the Altemps Collection:
Under
the porch statues
from the collection of Villa Mattei Celimontana
damaged by vandals and thieves
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