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Photograph a work in the Capitoline Museums and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Capitoline Museums

Rome, Italy

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Capitoline Museums walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Image in the demo: Saint John the Baptist, Caravaggio, 1602, a Capitoline Museums work reproduced from a public-domain file on Wikimedia Commons. Caravaggio, Source credit: Scanned and uploaded by Masur on 16 May 2011., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. The remaining collection images illustrate Lensmark and are not Capitoline Museums works.

What the Capitoline Museums collection covers

The Capitoline Museums trace their origins to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated ancient bronzes to the Roman people. Most of their works come from Rome itself. History

The collections occupy the historic palazzi of the Campidoglio. Ancient sculpture, mosaics and decorative arts sit alongside Baroque paintings, connecting Rome's civic history with the works it has preserved.

Its collection strengths include ancient Roman sculpture, Capitoline bronzes, Baroque painting, and Roman mosaics.

  • Capitoline Venus

    After Praxiteles

    This marble Venus follows a model associated with Praxiteles. The museum distinguishes the ancient model from its later copies and records this statue as MC0409, donated by Pope Benedict XIV in 1752.

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  • Capitoline Gaul

    Unknown Roman sculptor

    Date
    About 60–40 BCE

    A wounded Celtic warrior supports his body with one hand. This marble replica of a Pergamene victory monument is dated about 60–40 BCE in the museum record, inventory S 747.

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  • Saint John the Baptist

    Caravaggio

    Date
    1602

    Caravaggio painted this Saint John the Baptist in 1602. The oil painting belonged to the Mattei collection before passing through the del Monte and Pio collections; its museum inventory number is PC 239.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Capitoline Museums permit photographs and video of works for personal or study use, excluding temporary exhibitions and without tripods, selfie sticks or additional lights; professional, profit-making or dissemination purposes require authorization from the Sovrintendenza Capitolina. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Capitoline Museums photography policy

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