The Colossal Statue of Constantine

In the Villa Caffarelli garden, Constantine sits about 13 metres tall, bare-chested like Jupiter, with a gold cloak over one shoulder. Walk round him and you can pick out what the museum calls the "stitching": the head, right arm, hand, knee, shin and both feet are casts of real marble, painted to look weathered, and the clean white rest is new.

The originals are nine Parian-marble fragments found in 1486 in the Basilica of Maxentius and taken for the emperor Commodus until the late 19th century. Factum Foundation scanned them in three days in 2022, modelled the missing body on seated statues of Jupiter, and rebuilt the whole figure for Fondazione Prada's Recycling Beauty show in Milan. It has stood here since February 2024, partly over the site of the Temple of Jupiter.

The museum lists the garden as free entry, daily 9:30 to 18:30. The real fragments are in the courtyard of Palazzo dei Conservatori, inside the ticketed museum.