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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Musei Capitolini, Piazza del
Campidoglio 1.
Map 5 A5 & 12 F5.
Tel 06-0608.
∑ museicapitolini.org
Open 9:30am–7:30pm daily.
Mosaic of the Doves Closed Jan 1, May 1, Dec 25.
This charming, naturalistic & Tickets are valid for the whole
mosaic once decorated the complex. Note that the main
floor of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli entrance is through Palazzo dei
(see p271). It shows doves Conservatori. 9 8 - = 7
drinking water from a vase.
. Discobolus Transportation
@ 63, 70, 75, 81, 87, 160, 170,
The twisted torso was part
of a Greek statue of a discus 204, 628, 716, and many other
thrower. An 18th-century French routes to Piazza Venezia. v 8.
sculptor, Monnot, made the
additions that turned him into
a wounded warrior.

45
Red Faun
Stairs to Found at Tivoli, the famous
first floor red marble satyr is a
m 2nd-century AD version of a
44 Greek original – an example
of Hadrian’s fondness for all
things Greek.

51 52 53
Stairs to galleries below the
Senate and connecting with
Palazzo dei Conservatori
. Dying Galatian
Great compassion is
41 42 conveyed in this Roman
Stairs to copy of an original Greek
second work of the 3rd
43 floor century BC.

43c 43b 43a

Alexander Severus
as Hunter
In this marble statue from
the 3rd century AD, the
emperor’s pose is a
pastiche of Perseus,
holding up the head of
Exit Medusa the Gorgon after he
had killed her in her sleep.

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