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The
Campidoglio
In
1538-39 plans were under way for
the remodeling of the buildings
surrounding the Campidoglio
(Capitol) on the Capitoline Hill,
the civic and political heart of
the city of Rome. Although
Michelangelo's program was not
carried out until the late 1550s
and not finished until the 17th
century, he designed the
Campidoglio around an oval shape,
with the famous antique bronze
equestrian statue of the Roman
emperor Marcus Aurelius in the
center. For the Palazzo dei
Conservatori he brought a new
unity to the public building
facade, at the same time that he
preserved traditional Roman
monumentality.
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Pietà,
1499, marble sculpture,
Vatican.
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