Musei Capitolini

Ten years after the last appointment at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni the exhibition entitled "Purchases and Gifts in the Municipal Museums. 1997-2005" is on once more. A total of 130 works, of various types and periods, have been chosen out of the new acquisitions.
The exhibition, promoted by Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma, concludes a decade of undertaking on the part of the Municipal Administration dedicated to the increment of the collections in the city's various museums.
The objective was achieved above all thanks to a consolidated relationship of trust between public institutions and private collectors that has allowed these last to look to the "museum" as the ideal place in which to keep and protect one's artistic and cultural heritage. A new stimulus then for the spirit of initiative and cooperation between the Administration and collectors that reconciles the public aspect with private passion, making accessible to a wider number of persons the cultural wealth the city is able to offer.

The museums involved are numerous: the Musei Capitolini, where the works acquired will further enrich the oldest public collection of antiquity, the Museo Napoleonico, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Planetario e Museo Astronomico, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Museo della Matematica, Museo Civico di Zoologia, Museo della Casina delle Civette, Museo Canonica, and Museo del Giuoco e del Giocattolo, the Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, present with a considerable number of works.
In this museum, from 20th January to 26th March, contemporarily with the main exhibition, there will also be a new arrangement of the Sala della Fotografia (Hall of Photography) will a selection of sixty albumin based prints taken in Constantinople in the period 1860-70, which come from the Fondo fotografico Silvio Negro, that includes over 6000 items.The Fondo, purchased in 2003, is kept at the Archivio Fotografico Comunale (Municipal photographic archives).

The displayed works, more than 130, range from the statues of antiquity (such as the copy of the head of Hermes of Policletus), to masterpieces such as Guillaume Courtois's David and Goliath, Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Miss Catherine Bishop, and Il Comizio (The Political Rally) by Giulio Turcato. A considerable number of series of prints will also be on show (such as Percier Fontaine's views of Roman villas or the nucleus of Vincenzo Fasolo's project), as well as series of pictures (such as Poussin's Seven Sacraments), and of photographs (most notable among them View of Rome by Alfred Nicolas Normand, one of the oldest photographic views of Rome, and the very rich Silvio Negro fund, one of the earliest collections of historic photographs, centred mostly on XIX century Rome). The exhibition also contains various materials for the scientific museums, which include butterfly collections, mathematical instruments and astronomical reconstructions, and a selection from the absolutely vast repertoire of historic toys for the Museo del Giuoco e del Giocattolo currently being established at Villa Ada.

Policleto, Guillaume Courtois, Angelo Uggeri, Joseph Werner, Gino Severini, Pietro Tenerani, Domenico Amici, Giovanni Müller, Cristoforo Stimmer, Abramo Ortelio, Domenico Cresti detto il Passignano, Ettore Ferrari, Giuseppe Grezzi, Carlo Marchionni, Ottorino Mancioli, Giuseppe Ceracchi, Agostino Penna, Filippo Bigioli, Francesco Podesti, Domenico Bruschi, André de Muynck, Mathias Withoos, François Louis François, Vincenzo Fasolo, Chrales Percier, Agostino Tassi, Giovanni Giani, Giuseppe Romagnoli, Migliorato Editore, Benedetto Pistrucci, Carlo Moscetti, Luigi Di Sarro, carlo Alberto Petrucci, Ippolito caffi, Giovanni Battista Gaulli detto il Baciccio, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Giovanni Martino Hamerani, Ferdinand de Saint Urbani, Antonio Maria De Gennaro, Johann Daniel Donat, Matteo Lovatti, Edoardo Gelli, Lucius Rossi, Antonio D’Alessandri, Paolo Francesco D’Alessandri, Niccolò Ferrari, Arcangelo Cataletti, Domenico Guidi, Joshua Reynolds, Aldo Lucatelli, Luigi Bistolfi, Antonio Cavallucci, Vincenzo Morani, Pio Pullini, Virginio Vespignani, Pietro Gagliardi, Alfred Nicolas Normand, H.C. White Co., J.F. Jarvis Publisher, Gabriele Carloforti, Robert Macpherson, Pompeo Molins, Gustavo eugenio Chauffourier, Guillame Berggren, Michele Pedagna, Edoardo De Chanaz, Alphonse Bernoud, Emil Rabending, Ernesto Richter, Giacomo Caneva, Gioachino Altobelli, Tommaso Piroli, Roland Bonaparte, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Charlotte Napoléon Bonaparte, Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet, Louis-Albert-Ghislain Bacler d’Albe, Mario Carbone, Vittorio Baccin, Giulio Turcato, Mario Rutelli, Antonio Mancini, Carlo Levi, Adolf Wildt, Virgilio Marchi, Luigi Di Sarro, Lorenzo Guerrini, Publio Morbiducci, Giacinto Cerone, Myriam Laplante, paolo Monti, Alessandra Porfidia, Renzo Zecchini, Georges De Canino, Claudio Givani, Virginia Tomescu Scrocco, Carla Accardi, Enrico Castellani, Nicola Carrino, Bruno Ceccobelli, Lucio Del Pezzo, paolo D’Orazio, Piero Dorazio, Ulrick Erben, Rupprecht Geiger, Karl Gerstner, Gottfriend Honegger, Mikhail koulakov, Heinz Mack, Graziano Marini, Vittorio Matino, François Morellet, Giulia Napoleone, Kenneth Noland, Antonio Passa, Beverly Pepper, Emil Schumacher, Lee Doo shik, Shu Takahashi, Lossonczy Tamas, Joe Tilson, Giuseppe Uncini, Luigi Veronesi, Edoardo Gioja, Adraiana Amodei, Marino Mazzacurati, Ernesto Porcari, Franco D’Antuono, Andrea Aquilani, Sandro Sanna, Giovanni (Nino) Costa, Giancarlo Limoni, Pietro Fortuna, Paolo Cotani, Enrico castellani, Gianni Asdrubali, Nicola Carruino, Marco Tirelli, Francesco Gerrieri, Albert Fruscia, Sergio pucci, Guido Strazza, Lia drei, Naoya Takahara, Paolo Angelani, Elisa Montessori, Alberto Savinio (Andrea De Chirico), Isabella Ducrot, Licia Galizia, Felice Levini, Pablo Echaurren, Fiorella Rizzo, Giuseppe salvatori, Mario teleri Biason, Ercole Drei, Paolo giorni, Laura Calmieri, Alfredo Pirri, Domenico Colantoni, Gianfranco D’Alonzo, Cesare Tacchi, Giosetta Fioroni, carmine Tornincasa, Pierluigi Isola, Sergio Lombardo, Gianni Dessì, Dieter Kopp, Fabrizio Crisafulli, Cloti Ricciardi, Donatela Vici, Ennio Calabria, Lucia Barata, Maria Dompè, Alberto Zanazzo, Fabio Mauri, Getulio Alviani, Ugo Nespolo, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Bruno Ceccobelli, Marcolino Gandini, Titina Maselli, Piero Mottola, Alberto Vannetti, Roberto Mannino, Paolo Canevari, Alessandra Giovannoni, Tullio Pericoli, Lucilla Catania, Mariano Rossano, Guido Strazza, Mario Sasso, Giuseppe Pulvirenti, Bruno Conte, Carlo Battaglia, Alfredo Zelli, Marilù Eustachio, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Mirella Bentivoglio, Vettor Pisani, Gianfranco Baruchello, Renato Mambor, Giuseppe Ducrot, Mauro Folci, Carmen Gloria Morales, Giulia Napoleone, Ignazio Gadaleta, Enzo Cucchi, Claudio Verna, Teodosio Magnoni, Carlo Loirenzetti, Giuseppe uncini, Goffredo Verginelli, Gianni Asdrubali, Tomaso Ricordy, Massimo Arduini, Paolo Porelli, Gesime Arps, Salvatore silvia, Roberto Piloni, Domenica Ricciarello, Heike Kern, Chiara Cammarata, Loredana Muller, Irma Indaco, Manuela Sonetti, Daniela Garofano, Andrea Lelario, Gianluca Crescioni, Paolo Bertocchi, Luisa Mazza, Alessandro aldrovandi, Alessandra Molle, Sabina Alessi, Eleonora Veleri, Massimo Mazzobne, Vincenzo Franca, Claudia Sapora, Katia Pedale, Antonella Fiorelli,. Alessandra Galbiati, Suneica Vitorovic, Lucilla Caporilli, Aldo Bandinelli, Maria Cristina Bellocci, Giancarlo Di Grandi, Francesca Sponzilli, leonardo Santolamazza, Valentina Fontana, Francesca Bartolomucci, Gianluca Positano, Roberto Reginaldi, Licinia Mirabelli, Eva Incocciati, Francesca Trotter, Cristina Ricci, Sonia Porri, Francesco Deli, Sebastiano Palumbo, Annamaria Russo, Claudio Pieroni, Claudio Palmieri, Alessandra Giovannoni, Dario Passi, Nedda Guidi, Tommaso Cascella, Luca Maria Patella, Maria Lai, Rosanna Lancia, Giovanna De Sanctis, Vasco Bendini, Ettore Consolazione, Vibncenzo Cecchini, Bruno Liberatore, Andrea Fogli, Valeria Gramiccia, Renzogallo (Lorenzo Gallo), Roberto Pietrosanti, Oscar Turco, Andrea Nelli, Giovanni Albanese, Ettore de Conciliis, stefano Di Stasio, Theo Eshetu, H.H. Lim, Paola Gandolfi, Salvatore Pulvirenti, Oliviero Rainaldi, Vittorio Messina, Fabio De Sanctis, Lino Frongia, Gregorio Botta, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Claudio Adami, Ciriaco Campus, Carlo Cego, Paul klerr, Attilio Pierelli, Fiorenzo Zaffina, Rocco Falciano, Esther Watson, Istvan Banyai, Laura Levine, Anita Kunz, Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Karen Barbour, Bentos Mahan, Mark Todd, Mark Ulriksen, Gary Baseman, Everett Pack, Albert fruscia, Rocco Genovese, Monzon (Italo Turri), Gualtiero Nativi, John Hoyland, sebastian Matta, Jean Dewasne, Vlassis Caniaris, Andrea Aquilanti, carlo Bertocci, Enzo Cucchi, Fabrice De Nola, Stefano Di Stasio, Paolo Fiorentino, Daniele Galliano, Paola Gandolfi, Federico Guida, Massimo Livadiotti, Fabio Mauri, Giorgio Ortona, Federico Pietrella, Luca Pignatelli, Cristiano Pintaldi, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gioacchino Pontrelli. Mauro reggio, Francesca Tulli, Carlo Cego, Rosanna lancia, Paul Klerr, Roberto Melli, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Paolo Giorni, Corrado Bonicatti, Vittorio Grassi, Duilio Cambellotti, Paolo Paschetto, Pietro Canonica Jean Achille Benouville, François Bonnet, Friedrich Corner, Charles Earle Giovanna Bonasegale, Maria Elisa Tittoni