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The Altemps Palace, National Roman Museum in Rome, Italy #157324108
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The Painted Loggia of the Altemps Palace National Roman Museum in Rome Italy. The loggia frescoed with scenes of a secret garden displays the busts of the Twelfth Cesars, eight of whom can be identified, that origin from the Ludovisi collection. Located near Piazza Navona the Altemps Palace is one of the most interesting examples of Renaissance architecture in Rome. Erected during the fifteenth century by the Riario family and refurbished a century later under the orders of Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, Palazzo Altemps since 1997 it is one of the four seats of the National Roman Museum. The Palazzo Altemps houses an important collection of Greek and Roman sculpture that belonged to several families of the Roman nobility between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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