BARRACCO MUSEUM

Barracco Museum

Leaving St. Andrea della Valle, proceeding along Corso Vittorio toward the Tiber, a few steps, and you meet a little Renaissance palace named Farnesina ai Baullari, because it is near Palazzo Farnese and lies at the intersection of  Baullari street and Corso Vittorio, here is the Barracco Super Museum.
If you love quality Barracco Museum is your home.

The collection takes its name from Giovanni  Barracco (1829 - 1914).
Noble, rich, man of extraordinary culture, Giovanni  Barracco devoted his life to collecting works of art which testify the connections between the various ancient cultures.

Barracco is a comparative art museum that covers a period that goes from the third millennium BC to the high Middle Ages.
 
The little palace named Farnesina ai Baullari, attributed to Antonio da Sangallo, is since 1948 the seat of Barracco. The building stands on a Roman Domus of the late imperial age, whose remains are still visitable.

The Barracco Museum keeps 400 works, all very attractive. Two portraits are outstandings, in the first one Giovanni Barracco recognized the face of Julius Caesar and indeed the resemblance to the portraits of Caesar that we know is indisputable, the second portrait is known as "child Nerone", but the archaeologists, who show doubts, they say, "maybe yes, but maybe not, who knows?"
We know! They are Julius Caesar and Nero. Dot.

The course of the visit begins with the Egyptian art, followed by the Mesopotamian, then you go to Cyprus, continue with the Etruscan art, ending with the Greek-Roman art, that we present as follows: Greek originals, Roman reworks from Policleto, portraits of famous men, Roman remakes of Greek originals, Roman Art and closing the famous Ecclesia Romana a mosaic from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter.

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