Portraits originating from a roman domus in the Hall of the Machines of the Capitoline Museums in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre in Rome Italy. The domus and its sculptural decoration, composed by portraits of emperors, empresses and illustrious personages, and splendid Roman copies and reworkings of Greek originals, were discovered during the works for Via dei Fori Imperiali in the 1930th in Rome. They are located in the spacious machine hall of the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre which contains the two colossal two-speed motors that were installed on the 21st April 1933 and had a total power of 15.000 HP. The history of the Museum Centrale Montemartini began in 1997 with the transfer of hundreds of sculptures into the new location during the restructuring works of the Capitoline complex converting it after the great success in a permanent exhibition.
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