Frommer's Review
Hike out to this old power plant if you want to see some of the finest sculptures in ancient Rome, including many items from the Capitoline Museum stockpile that haven't been exhibited in Rome since Mussolini was in power. They're displayed against a backdrop of Industrial Age machinery that once supplied electricity to the area. The prize here is the Togato Barberini, a berobed aristocrat from Rome of 90 B.C. He carries two heads, the symbol of an old custom in Republican Rome when patricians maintained hollow wax portrait busts of their former ancestors. They brought these busts out for special celebrations. By carrying the head, they were signifying that they were the stand-in for their illustrious progenitors.
You'll find everything from a Greek Aphrodite from the 5th century B.C. to an endless array of marble busts and statues, many of which might have come from the area of the Imperial Forum. Many of the statues, especially those in the rooms upstairs, are superb Roman copies of Greek originals. The most stunning of these is a towering goddess statue from 100 B.C. that once graced the Temple of Fortuna in Largo di Teatro Argentina.
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