The Altemps Palace, National Roman Museum In Rome, Italy Editorial Image

One of the Erinyes or Medusa Ludovisi in the Altemps Palace National Roman Museum in Rome Italy. The head origins from the Ludovisi collection and is a Roman copy of the 2nd century A.D. After a Hellenistic original. 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.