ALGARDI, Alessandro
(b. 1598, Bologna, d. 1654, Roma)

Pope Innocent X

1645-49
Photo
Musei Capitolini, Rome

The photo shows the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii of the Palazzo dei Conservatori with the statue of Pope Innocent X by Alessandro Algardi. The European Constitution was signed in this hall on 29 October 2004 and the European Economic Community had formally been founded here in 1957 with the Treaty of Rome.