Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano) historical timeline

A fifteenth-century palace that changed families in 1568, became a museum in the twentieth century, and now holds what was saved when a great Roman villa garden was sold for building land.

Chronology

1. 15th century — the Palace is built for Girolamo Riario.
2. 1568 — it passes to the Altemps family.
3. 16th–17th century — Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps assembles a collection of 120 sculptures of the Greek and Roman period; the Del Drago collection is formed in the 17th century.
4. 1889 — the Museo Nazionale Romano is instituted to house the antiquities of Rome, and comes to hold the most important archaeological collection in the world.
5. End of the 19th century — the Villa Ludovisi is destroyed for the creation of the present Ludovisi quarter, and part of its collection of about 450 sculptures is dispersed; the State acquires 104.
6. Today — the palace displays the Boncompagni Ludovisi, Altemps, Mattei and Del Drago collections and a substantial group of the museum's Egyptian collection; of the cardinal's 120 sculptures, fifteen are preserved.

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