Museo di Scultura Antica "Giovanni Barracco"
The Museum of Ancient Sculpture "Giovanni Barracco" collects several works of Classical art and the Near East art, donated to the city by Baron Barracco in 1904. The building that houses the Museum was built in 1523 by a Breton prelate, Thomas Le Roye, and draws in decorating the Farnesina (it's said, in fact, "Little Farnesina"). In 1899, during some excavations, are emerged some structures of a Roman house of the fourth century. The Museum is divided into thematic rooms: the "Hall of Egyptian Art" exhibits pieces from both auctions Parisian than directly from ancient Egypt (Stele of Nofer, Sphinx of Hatshepsut, youth Portrait of Ramses II and the great hourglass of Ptolemy Philadelphus); in the "Hall of Sumerian and Assyrian Art", are exhibited pieces from southern Mesopotamia and palaces of Nimrud and Nineveh; the "Etruscan Hall" has exhibits from Bolsena and Chianciano; the "Cypriot Hall" has a fine reproduction of parade car of the fifth century BC; the "Hall of Phoenician Art", with pieces from Sardinia and Sidon; the halls of '"Greek Art" (Bust of the Silenus Marsyas, Apollinea Head and Statue of Praxiteles), "Hellenistic" (Bitch Wound, by Sopatrus), "Romana" (Statue of Nero and Funerary Stele of Palmyra); finally, "Hall of Medieval Art", with a mosaic of the twelfth century.
