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feet all belonged to a 12m-high statue of Constantine that once stood in the Basilica di
Massenzio in the Roman Forum.
Of the permanent sculpture collection on the 1st floor, the Etruscan Lupa Capitolina
(Capitoline Wolf) is the most famous piece. Standing in the
Sala della Lupa
, this 5th-
century-BC bronze wolf stands over her suckling wards Romulus and Remus, who were
added to the composition in 1471. Other crowd-pleasers include the Spinario, a delicate
1st-century-BC bronze of a boy removing a thorn from his foot, in the
Sala dei Trionfi
, and
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's
Medusa
bust in the
Sala delle Oche
.
