| Rome was endowed with an abundance of museums due to the large collections of art treasures collected over the centuries by popes and individual families plus Roman artifacts discovered by archeologists. We visited the National Museum of Rome in Palazzo Massimo housing a great collection of Roman sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, and sarcophagi; the Capitol Hill Museum (Musei Capitolini) containing great statues of antiquity and art plus ruins of the Roman Tabularium; the Borghese Gallery, one of the richest and most elegant art museums in Europe, exhibiting Bernini�s sculpture Apollo and Daphne (one of our favorite sculptures); and the Vatican Museum containing some of the greatest art in the world culminating with the world-renown frescos of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. (Only in the National Museum of Rome and the Capital Hill Museum were we allowed to take pictures.) |
