CAMPIDOGLIO AND CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS, Square
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- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Now that you're standing in this beautiful trapezoid-shaped square, the first thing that you probably notice is the bronze monument of Emperor Marcus Aurelius on horseback. A spectacular geometrically patterned pavement spreads out from the monument with a twelve-pointed star inscribed in an oval. The base of the famous imperial statue is also Michelangelo's work, while the splendid sculpture is just a copy: the original was removed in 1981 in order to better preserve it, and I'll talk about it more in the MyWoWo file dedicated to the Capitoline Museums.
You can see Michelangelo's touch in every architectural aspect of the square, even though the buildings were completed after his death....