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The new exhibition space of the Capitoline Museums in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre in Rome, Italy #164939149
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Statue in prayer in basanite in the Hall of the Machines of the Capitoline Museums in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre in Rome Italy. The statue in dark stone shows Agrippina the younger as a bidder the head is moulded copy of that on display in the Ny Carsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and was probably displayed in the temple of the Divine Claudio on the Celian. The history of the Museum began in 1997 with the transfer of hundreds of sculptures into the new location during the restructuring works of the Capitoline complex converting it after the great success in a permanent exhibition. It is an extraordinary example of industrial archaeology converted into a museum for classical art.
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