Exhibitions
The reassembled pediment of Via di San Gregorio
Palazzo Caffarelli
8 November 2002 - 2 February 2003
Reconstruction of the terracotta pediment dating from the late Republican age discovered at the end of the 19th century in Rome on Via di San Gregorio.
The adventure story of one of Guido Reni's final masterpieces, the Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne, long thought to have been destroyed in a fire in 1650 and of which a large fragment depicting Ariadne has recently been found.
Forty period dresses from a private collection, displayed in the Appartamento dei Conservatori at the Campidoglio and the Montemartini Power Plant, document Italian fashion from the nineteenth into the twentieth century.
Portuguese Baroque Art Treasures
Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino
20 April - 1 September 2002
17th century paintings, silverware, chinaware and azulejos. New view of 17th century Portuguese art and culture.