Palazzo Venezia Today National Museum Of The Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy Editorial Photo

The marble collection the National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy. In 2005 the collection was located in the upper part of the loggia over the garden of the 15th century. The so called lapidarium houses artworks that origins among others from the Mattei collection and the Museum of Industrial Artworks and dates from the antiquity to modern times. Housed in the building of Palazzo Venezia the museum contains galleries of art, predominantly pottery, tapestry, statuary from the early Christian era up to early Renaissance. Palazzo Venezia is located just north of the Capitoline Hill. In 1469 owned by Cardinal Pietro Barbo, nephew of Pope Eugenius IV and the future Pope Paul II it became a residential papal palace, having undergone a massive extension. The pope commissioned perhaps Alberti or Giuliano da Maiano to enlarge his palace in 1455, by incorporating into it the adjacent 9th-century basilica of San Marco. The building manifests some of the first Renaissance architectural features in Rome.