Example sentences for: capitoline

How can you use “capitoline” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The top-floor Capitoline Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Capitolina) has important Venetian works by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Lotto, and Veronese, as well as a fine Rubens Romulus and Remus and Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist.

  • These two palazzos house the Capitoline Museums (see page 66), whose Greek and Roman collections provide an excellent introduction to the ancient Roman Forum that spreads below it.

  • In the Palazzo dei Conservatori is the most celebrated piece, the superb Etruscan bronze Capitoline She-Wolf (Lupa Capitolina), symbol of the city.

  • Beside the Piazza Venezia, a steep staircase leads up to the austere 13th-century Santa Maria in Aracoeli, while another, more graceful and gradual, takes you up between the statues of Castor and Pollux to Michelangelo’s beautifully proportioned square of the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill).

  • Proposals to demolish this street and restore the unity of the whole archaeological zone from the Capitoline Hill to the Colosseum are often in the news.


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