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Lupa Capitolina

Lupa Capitolina, the famous bronze sculpture, housed Capitoline Museums in Rome, was founded in the XIII century AD, but not in the V century BC. Such conclusion was a group of researchers from the University of Salerno headed by Professor Adriano La Regina, in the past - the largest Roman officials for Cultural Heritage. A new dating of the She-wolf wrote The Guardian quoting at La Reppublica.

from the XVIII century, when the Lupa Capitolina has described the largest German art historian Johann Winckelmann, this sculpture was considered Etruscan. Authorship small statues of Romulus and Remus were known documented: they did at the end of the XV century Florentine artist Antonio del Pollayolo. In the XIX century assumption Winckelmann tried to challenge at least two scientists who believed a she-wolf later, medieval work, but the authority of the German writer was so great that his opinion continued to listen.

In 2006, Anna Maria Karrubi (Anna Maria Carruba), a specialist in metallurgy, restored Lupa Capitolina, unveiled conclusions: in her view, the sculpture could not do before VIII-X centuries. The fact that the ancients were not able to cast large statues all: they were made in installments, and then welded. Lupa also was made immediately and completely.

Lupa Capitolina is the symbol of the football club Roma, Italy used its in the symbolism of the Rome Olympics in 1960.

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