The Collection of San Lorenzo in the Halls of the Columns of the Capitoline Museums in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre in Rome Italy. The group of sculpture in peperine a stone from the Albani Hills was discovered near the Church of San Lorenzo in Rome.
The statues represent female figures, Orpheus among the animals, and a barbarian; they are carefully worked out, using Hellenistic models of the Pergamon school from the late 3rd ââ¬â early 4th century BC. The collection should probably be associated with a temple of Herakles. The history of the Museum 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. It is an extraordinary example of industrial archaeology converted into a museum for classical art.
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