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| Established | 1948 (1948) |
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| Location | Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A 00186Rome,Italy |
| Coordinates | 41°53′48.4″N12°28′21.4″E / 41.896778°N 12.472611°E /41.896778; 12.472611 |
| Type | Art museum,Historic site |
| Website | www |
TheMuseo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco (English:Giovanni Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture) is a museum inRome that displays the antiquities collection of Giovanni Barracco. After amassing an impressive private collection throughout his travels as a member of the Italian parliament, Barracco donated the works to the city of Rome in 1902. Since 1948, the collection has been housed in the Renaissance-era Palazzetto Le Roy, which has been expanded underground with archaeological excavations of an ancient Romandomus. Today, the museum remains part of theMusei in Commune network and is free to the public.
Among the works areEgyptian,Assyrian, andPhoenician art, as well asGreek sculptures of theclassical period. The 400 works of the collection are divided according to thecivilization and are displayed in nine rooms, on the first and second floors, while the ground floor contains a small reception area.
On the first floor Egyptian works are presented in Rooms I and II. Room II includes works fromMesopotamia, includingcuneiform tablets of the third millennium BCE and items fromneo-Assyrian palaces dating from the ninth and seventh centuries BCE. The third room contains two important Phoenician items together with someEtruscan art, while the fourth displays works from Cyprus.
The second floor exhibitsclassical art. Room V presents original sculptures and copies from the Roman period as well as Greek sculpture of the fifth century BCE. Room VI displays copies of classical and late classical Roman work, along with funerary sculptures from Greece.Rooms VII and VIII, show a collection of Greek and Italicceramics, and other items, starting from the time ofAlexander the Great. The final room shows examples of works from public monuments of the Roman period, together with specimens of medieval art.
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Media related toMuseo Barracco at Wikimedia Commons| Preceded by Museo Archeologico Ostiense | Landmarks of Rome Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica | Succeeded by Museo Civico di Zoologia |
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