Torso of a Satyr in the Hall of the painted prospects in the Altemps Palace National Roman Museum in Rome Italy. The hall displays masterpieces of the Ludovisi collection like the Hermes Ludovisi a Hellenistic sculpture of the god Hermes in his form of Hermes Psychopompus, the statue of Asclepius and the Statue of Hercules, 2nd A.C. Located near Piazza Navona the Altemps Palace is one of the most interesting examples of Renaissance architecture in Rome. Erected during the fifteenth century by the Riario family and refurbished a century later under the orders of Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, Palazzo Altemps since 1997 it is one of the four seats of the National Roman Museum. The Palazzo Altemps houses an important collection of Greek and Roman sculpture that belonged to several families of the Roman nobility between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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