The "Musei Capitolini" (Capitoline Museums) are a group of art and archaeological museums that spread across several buildings and two floors.
On the ground floors there are classical findings (Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian), and the upper floor houses the Capitoline Art Gallery, with works by artits such as Caravaggio, Titian, Pietro da Cortona, Guercino, Velázquez, Rubens, Dosso Dossi, Paolo Caliari (known as Veronese), Guido Reni, Anton van Dyck, Mattia Preti, Domenichino, Garofalo, and many others.
Notable classic pieces in this museum:
- the original of the gilded bronze equestrian statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius (ca. 176 AD)
- parts of the colossal bronze statue of emperor Costantinus (4th century AD)
- statue of Hercules in gilded bronze (ca. 4th century BC)
- emperor Commodus as Hercules (192 AD)
- the Capitoline Wolf, with the wolf probably an Etruscan statue of the 5th century BC, and the twins added in the 15th century
- the Boy with Thorn, a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze (1st century AD)
- The Camillus, Roman bronze from the 1st century BC
Notable paintings in the Art Gallery:
- The Burial of St. Petronilla, by Guercino, 1623
- The Fortune Teller, by Caravaggio, 1593-1595
- John the Baptist, by Caravaggio, 1602
- Romulus and Remus, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1615-1616
- Baptism of Christ, by Titian, ca. 1512
- Portrait of Juan de Córdoba, by Diego Velázquez, 1630