In two rooms of Palazzo Clementino at the Capitoline Museums, next to the Medagliere, takes place the exhibition The Colours of Antiquity. dell'Antico. The Santarelli Marbles at the Capitoline Museums with a selection of more than 660 polychrome marbles from the imperial age from the Capitoline collection and the Dino and Ernesta Santarelli Foundation. Thanks to a 10-year free loan, the exhibition offers a view of the immense quantity of stones imported to Rome: a unique opportunity to retrace, through shapes, colours and patterns, the millenary history of the capital from an artistic as well as a socio-cultural, political and economic point of view. The use of polychrome marble in fact characterised Roman architecture in the imperial age in a decisive way. [see more]