Tuesday, December 1, 2015

ALTEMPS PALACE - NATIONAL ROMAN MUSEUM (first part)

PALAZZO ALTEMPS

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)
The covered roof loggia dates to 1585
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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