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in a late 19th-century painting
by Guglielmo de Sanctis. The
collection was assembled in
1927 by the Counts Primoli,
the sons of Charles’s sister,
Carlotta Bonaparte.
The palace next door, in Via
Zanardelli, houses the Racolta
Praz, an impressive selection
of over 1,000 objets d’art,
paintings, and pieces of
furniture. Dating from the 17th
and 18th centuries, they were
collected by the art historian Side relief of the Ludovisi Throne, Palazzo Altemps
and literary critic Mario Praz.
as a museum during the 1990s, group, a Roman copy of the
the palazzo was originally built Greek original. On the second
for Girolamo Riario, nephew of floor, at the far end of the
Pope Sixtus IV in 1480. The courtyard, visitors can admire
Riario coat of arms can still be the Painted Loggia, dating from
seen in the janitor’s room. In the 1595. The Ludovisi throne, a
popular uprising that followed Greek original carved in the 5th
the pope’s death in 1484, the century BC, is on the same floor.
building was sacked, and It is decorated with reliefs, one
Girolamo fled the city. of which shows a young
In 1568 the palazzo was woman rising from the sea,
bought by Cardinal Marco thought to represent Aphrodite.
Sittico Altemps. His family was In the room known as the
of German origin – the name is Salone del Camino is the
an Italianization of Hohenems powerful statue Galatian’s
– and influential in the Suicide, a marble copy of
church. The palazzo a group originally made
was renovated by in bronze. Nearby is the
Martino Longhi Ludovisi Sarcophagus,
Entrance to Museo Napoleonico the Elder in the dating from the 3rd
1570s. He added century AD.
s Hostaria the great
belvedere,
dell’Orso crowned with Galatian’s Suicide in
obelisks, and a the Palazzo Altemps
Via dei Soldati 25. Map 4 E3 & 11 C2.
Tel 06-6830 1192. @ 70, 81, 87, 116, marble unicorn.
186, 204, 280, 492, 628. Open The Altemps
8pm–2am Mon–Sat. family were
ostentatious
This ancient inn (see p314) has a collectors; the
15th-century portico and loggia courtyard, and its
built with columns from Roman staircase, are lined
ruins. Visitors included the 16th- with ancient
century French writers Rabelais sculptures. These
and Montaigne. form part of the
museum’s collection,
together with the
d Palazzo Altemps Ludovisi collection of
ancient sculptures,
Via di Sant’Apollinare 46. Map 4 E3 &
11 C2. Tel 06-3996 7700. @ 70, 81, 87, which was previously
116, 280, 492, 628. Open 9am–7:45pm housed in the Museo
Tue–Sun (last adm: 1 hour before Nazionale Romano in the
closing). Closed Jan 1, Dec 25. & 7 Baths of Diocletian (see
8 = p165). On the first floor is
the Greek statue of
An extraordinary collection of Athena
Classical sculpture is housed Parthenos
in this branch of the Museo and the
Nazionale Romano. Restored Dionysius

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