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

The Brancaccio Bull in the Altemps Palace National Roman Museum in Rome Italy. The So-called “Brancaccio Bull”, the bull-god Apis holding the solar disk and the uraeus is an Egyptian artwork of Granodiorite from the Ptolemaic Era 2nd century BC, brought to Rome in the Imperial time. The statue was part of the Brancaccio 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.