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Editorial summary
Museo impresionante y luminoso, diseñado por Richard Meier, con un altar romano ornamentado.
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Museo pequeñito pero interesante. Fuimos expresamente por la exposición de impresionismo, y sólo por ella merece la pena viajar a Roma. Poder ver 52 obras de Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir... Excelente muestra. Punto negativo que haya que salir del museo para acceder a la sala de exposiciones, y el precio algo elevado. En este caso, la exposición lo merecía, pero de no haberla habido es probable que no hubiéramos optado por ir al museo de haber tenido que pagar entrada.
Un lugar con un monumento hacia La Paz histórico, parecía tener más que esto pero es lo único, desde adentro se puede observar parte del mausoleo, pero no se puede ver completo.
La exposicion temporal de expresionismo es fantasticas. Espacio comodo y las obras con buena iluminacion
Points included in this audio guide
Outer Enclosure of the Ara Pacis
Marble structure surrounding the altar, decorated in two registers: vegetative motifs in the lower section and historical and allegorical scenes in the upper section.
South Side Procession
Relief depicting the inauguration ceremony of 9 BCE with Augustus as Pontifex Maximus, his imperial family, and members of the official procession.
Lupercal Panel
Relief on the western side depicting Mars and the shepherd Faustulus observing the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus beside the ficus ruminalis.
Relief of the Sacrifice of Aeneas
A relief depicting Aeneas with veiled head performing a sacrifice to the Penates, accompanied by his son Ascanius and two young attendants.
Tellus Saturnia Panel
One of the finest preserved reliefs depicting an allegory of the Golden Age, featuring a maternal figure surrounded by putti and two nymphs representing air and sea.
Inner Altar
The altar itself stands upon a podium of three steps, adorned with allegorical female figures representing the provinces of the Empire and reliefs depicting the annual sacrifice.
Internal Decorations of the Enclosure
Interior surfaces featuring vertical fluting that mimics a wooden palisade, with festoons supported by ox-skulls adorned with garlands and phialai.
- 1.Outer Enclosure of the Ara Pacis
- 2.South Side Procession
- 3.Lupercal Panel
- 4.Relief of the Sacrifice of Aeneas
- 5.Tellus Saturnia Panel
- 6.Inner Altar
- 7.Internal Decorations of the Enclosure
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