The Hall of the Emperors at the
Capitoline Museums in Rome has been restored to its former
glory, sources said Wednesday.
"The environment is once again the one collectors and
artists came to study in order to understand the harmony of
statues from Antiquity," Rome culture and museums chief Claudio
Parisi Presicce said in presenting the restoration alongside
Mayor Virginia Raggi and other officials.
The hall houses portraits of 67 ancient Roman emperors or
their family members purchased in 1733 by Pope Clement XII as
the founding core of the Capitoline Museums, which were
inaugurated the following year.
Raggi noted that they were "the first museum in the world",
bringing art to the public and not just collectors.
The restoration has returned the walls to their original
golden and pale blue hues, thus leading to a more realistic
vision of what the hall might have looked like in the 1700s.
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