Museo di Roma

Coordinates: 41°53′50″N 12°28′22″E / 41.8973°N 12.4729°E / 41.8973; 12.4729
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Museo di Roma
Palazzo Braschi, home of the museum
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Established1930 (1930)
LocationPiazza di S. Pantaleo 10, 00186 Roma 00186
Coordinates41°53′50″N 12°28′22″E / 41.8973°N 12.4729°E / 41.8973; 12.4729
TypeArt museum
Websitemuseodiroma.it

The Museo di Roma is a museum in

water-colours by the nineteenth-century painter Ettore Roesler Franz of Roma sparita, "vanished Rome",[1] later moved to the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.[2]

History

Façade of the Pastificio Pantanella, former home of the museum, on Piazza Bocca della Verità

The museum was founded by the

Second World War began in 1939, the museum closed.[1]

The museum re-opened only in 1952, in a new political climate and in a new location at Palazzo Braschi, a Neoclassical palace near Piazza Navona, built in the early years of the nineteenth century by Luigi Braschi Onesti, which since 1949 had already housed the new Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna.[5][6]: 210 

Collections

The collection of the museum was at first intended only to illustrate and document the past.

bequests, donations and acquisitions – among them a collection of some 5000 drawings, engravings and old illustrated books belonging to Antonio Muñoz – the holdings of the museum now include many works of art, and it has become primarily an art museum. Artists represented include Pompeo Batoni, Giuseppe Bottani, Ippolito Caffi, Antonio Canova, Giuseppe Ceracchi, Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Lievin Cruyl, Felice Giani, Pietro Labruzzi, Francesco Mochi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Joshua Reynolds and Nicola Salvi (designer of the Trevi Fountain).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Storia del Museo (in Italian). Museo di Roma. Accessed January 2016.
  2. ^ La Collezione (in Italian). Museo di Roma in Trastevere. Accessed January 2016.
  3. ISBN 9788883681066
    . p. 189–200.
  4. ^ Raffaella Catini (2012). Muñoz, Antonio (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 77. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2016.
  5. ^ Storia del museo (in Italian). Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna. Accessed January 2016.
  6. ^
    ISBN 9788883681066
    . p. 201–224.

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Preceded by
Museo delle Mura 		Landmarks of Rome
Museo di Roma 		Succeeded by
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
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