Palazzo Nuovo. The first was built in 1560, but only after one century, the Palazzo Nuovo was finished by Girolamo Rinaldi. With the Palazzo Senatorio, they form the architectural composition of Piazza del Campidoglio, with its distinctive trapezoid shape, originally designed by Michelangelo. Since its foundation, the museum has exclusively been devoted to ancient statuary. The famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, a bronze original dating back to 175 AD, has recently been relocated inside the museums in order to preserve it from pollution , the one outside, is in fact a copy. One of the most famous pieces on display is the Galata Morente (the Dying Gaul), copy of an original bronze statue donated to the temple of Athena by Attalus I after his victory on the Gauls. Also remarkable are the Capitoline Venus, and the Wounded Amazon, from an original by Phydias dating back to the 5th century BC. The museum also houses a collection of busts portraying the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine, and some empresses while the Hall of the Philosophers exhibits a number of portraits of famous Greek men as Homer, Socrates, Demosthenes, Epicurus. The two Centaurs and a Satyr, coloured statues from Villa Adriana, as well as the famous Mosaic of the Doves (picturing two doves watering from a vase) are also particularly remarkable.
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