At the Capitoline Museums, a multimedia exhibition tells the story of Rome with the Fasti Capitolini

The Capitoline Museums, at the Palazzo dei Conservatori, has opened to the public the exhibition The Legacy of Caesar and the Conquest of Time, which will run until Dec. 31.

It is a multimedia exhibition project that recounts the events and protagonists of the history of ancient Rome through the Fasti Capitolini. These extraordinary calendars from the Augustan age, carved in marble, from the mid-sixteenth century (they were found in 1547 in the Roman forum) are on display, designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti, on the back wall of the Sala della Lupa, once the Ancient Fasti room, in the apartment of the Conservators, part of the Capitoline Museums complex.

Between the lines carved in marble is narrated the history of Rome that everyone studies in school books and, often, the hasty visitor misses the mention of universally known characters, Romulus, Tarquinius the Proud, Julius Caesar, Augustus, as well as famous battles and important achievements.

Through videomapping, graphics and a sound commentary, the multimedia exhibition offers the audience the tools to trace on the wall elements that, although present within one’s cognitive background on the history of Rome, one would not expect to find there and in those forms.

The projections take place directly on the marble wall by alternating videomapping, which indicates and underlines the salient words and phrases in the calendars, with a classic video projection that overlaps the wall itself, almost annihilating it and transforming it into a screen on which to narrate through images the episodes just evoked by the names of the protagonists highlighted through videomapping.

An innovative and engaging proposal to discover and deepen the history of Rome, from its foundation (753 B.C.) to the end of the Republican Age and the dawn of the Imperial Age (31 B.C.), thanks to a unique historical and archaeological testimony.

The project constitutes the first stage of approach to the exhibition The Rome of the Republic, scheduled during 2021 at the Capitoline Museums themselves. The exhibition is conceived in continuity with The Rome of Kings, hosted at the Capitoline Museums between 2018 and 2019, as the second episode of the cycle The Tale of Archaeology.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Capitoline Museums.

At the Capitoline Museums, a multimedia exhibition tells the story of Rome with the Fasti Capitolini

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