Palazzo Altemps

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The Palazzo Altemps is located in the modern rione Ponte, part of the Campus Martius, a part of Ancient Rome that was developed beginning under the emperor Augustus. It is located directly north of the Piazza Navona. In the ancient period, this site was only 160 meters from the Ponte Elio, and was one of the two main marble ports on the Tiber River in Rome.
The building was designed in the 15th century by Melozzo da Forlì for Girolamo Riario, who was related to Pope Sixtus IV.
The Palazzo Altemps became the property of the Holy See in the 19th century, and the building was used as a seminary for a short time. It was granted to the Italian State in 1982 and after 15 years of restoration, inaugurated as a museum in 1997.
It houses the museum’s displays on the history of collecting (sculptures from Renaissance collections such as the Boncompagni-Ludovisi and Mattei collections, including the Ludovisi Ares and the Suicide of a Gaul (from the same Pergamon group as the Dying Gaul) and the ‘Egyptian Collection (sculptures of eastern deities). The Palace also includes the historic private theatre, at present used to house temporary exhibitions, and the church of Sant’ Aniceto.

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